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Aside from this brief Crimson splurge, Mets was in very little difficulty. He struck out four batters, including substitute infielder Henry Young, who batted for Ward in the ninth. Mets had most of his trouble with Foynes and Tom Cavanaugh, who got two hits in four ab...
...Hopkins, Botts died. A murder indictment was handed up against Vencill, charging him with "assaulting and stabbing and causing the death of" Eugene Botts. Meanwhile the hospital discovered that, although Botts's blood was Type O ("universal donor"), he had mistakenly been given blood of the rare Type AB. Revised finding of the city medical examiner: death was almost certainly due to a kidney block caused by the wrong blood...
Young Teacher. Ab Cahan was a young teacher in Vilna, and a Marxian Socialist, when the Czar's police began shadowing him. He fled to New York, got work in a cigar factory. To learn English well, 22-year-old Ab Cahan unashamedly went to grade school with children, working nights so that he could do so. He devoted his spare time to the Socialist and labor movements, by 1885 was editing the Socialist weekly Arbeiter Zeitung and writing perceptive short stories about East Side Jews. His novel, The Rise of David Levinsky, written in 1917, is still regarded...
Cahan substituted lively feature stories. To make his writers stop using long words, Ab would call in the elevator operator to see if he could understand their stories. He gave his readers such homely advice as urging mothers to see that their children carried handkerchiefs. When his sponsors protested such trivialities, Ab asked: "Since when is Socialism opposed to clean noses...
...good in 1933 for supporting Roosevelt. At Cahan's celebration last week, Union Boss David Dubinsky and others praised him as the man who had done more than anyone else to keep the garment workers' union free of Communist influence. When everyone else had finished, old Ab rose to respond, murmured: "I am happier than I ever was in my life. Brothers and sisters, I thank you millions of times." Words failing, he finished by reaching out his arms in a gesture of embrace...