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...week ago the members of the Open squad were scattered about the House League. Today, thanks to Coach Dwight Hyde 1B and his Open Subsidization plan, these individuals are welded into one of the most enthusiastic and hard-hitting teams over to prance on the Stadium turf...
Open U. and Closed College worked out on Soldiers Field turf /yesterday in preparation for their big game Saturday...
...indubitably in color, but who was colored what was always difficult to tell. The screen seemed to take on a hue corresponding to whatever color was predominant in the picture, and so for most of the time all the players had a greenish tings because of the Michie Stadium turf. In closeups, however, the colors did not run together but appeared almost unnaturally brilliant...
...family of five. The twins went to Cathedral School in Leavenworth, where a stern rule forbade the playing of mumblety peg on the front lawn. "Bill liked to have fun," said Clara Boyle, "but he always got by." One day Bill and Russell were tossing a knife into the turf when a priest walked up behind them and coughed. Bill looked up beamingly. "Such a beautiful lawn, Father Kelly," he said. "We couldn't bear to see it spoiled by the dandelions...
...some slight running of colors. When [Dodger Manager] Charley Dressen . . . stood on the bare base path . . . his white uniform was immaculate as a prom queen's gown. But the camera followed him as he returned to the coach's box beside third, and against this background of "turf he turned green, like cheap jewelry. Light blues ran a good deal too . . . when the camera swept the shirt-sleeved crowd one had the impression that all the customers had been laundered together with too much bluing in the water . . . If you watched intently while a batsman swung...