104. A to Z?

"Line-Up for Yesterday" is a poem published in Sport magazine in January 1949. It pays tribute to the baseball greats in alphabetical order. The poet also mentions his own fanaticism for the game under “I”. The following is a sampling from his A to Z list.

A is for Alex, The great Alexander; More Goose eggs he pitched, Than a popular gander.

B is for Bresnahan Back of the plate; The Cubs were his love, and McGraw his hate.

C is for Cobb, Who grew spikes and not corn, And made all the basemen, Wish they weren't born.

D is for Dean, The grammatical Diz, When they asked, Who's the tops? Said correctly, I is.

E is for Evers, His jaw in advance; Never afraid, To Tinker with Chance.

F is for Fordham, And Frankie and Frisch; I wish he were back, With the Giants, I wish.

G is for Gehrig, The Pride of the Stadium; His record pure gold, His courage, pure radium.

H is for Hornsby; When pitching to Rog, The pitcher would pitch, Then the pitcher would dodge.

I is for Me, Not a hard-hitting man, But an outstanding all-time, Incurable fan.

J is for Johnson, The Big Train in his prime, Was so fast he could throw, Three strikes at a time.

Who is the great poet?

103. 420?

Beginning with the capture of an agent named Owens, codenamed SNOW, MI5 began to offer enemy agents the chance to avoid prosecution (and thus the possibility of the death penalty) if they would work as British double-agents. Agents who agreed to this were supervised by MI5 in transmitting bogus "intelligence" back to the German secret service, the Abwehr. This necessitated a large-scale organizational effort, since the information had to appear valuable but in actual fact be misleading. A high-level committee, the Wireless Board, was formed to provide this information. The day-to-day operation was delegated to a subcommittee, the Twenty Committee. The name of this committee lead to a phrase regularly used in English vocabulary.

What is the phrase ?

102. Mortal Killers?

These mythological creatures of Russian legend had head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl). According to the myth, they lived "in Indian lands" near Eden or around the Euphrates River.

These half-women half-birds sang beautiful songs to the saints, foretelling future joys. For mortals, however, the birds were dangerous. Men who heard them would forget everything on earth, follow them, and ultimately die. People would attempt to save themselves from these creatures by shooting cannons, ringing bells and making other loud noises to scare the bird off.

Vladimir Nabokov wrote some of his first novels and poems using the name of the bird as pseudonym.

Which mythological creature?

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SWORD STRAIGHT
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PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF LETTERS

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