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Milwaukee has been winning games for Grimm by performance on the field, notably, the batting and fielding performances of three eye-catching youngsters, Sophomore Third Baseman Ed Mathews, 21, Rookie Negro Centerfielder Bill Bruton, 23, and strapping (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) First Baseman Joe Adcock, 25. Mathews, a left-handed power hitter, leads both leagues in home runs (19), is second in runs batted in (52), and is hitting at a .318 clip. Often awkward last year, Mathews is "a major-league third baseman now," says Grimm. Fleetfooted Outfielder Bruton (30 stolen bases last year), usually the Braves...
...week's end, with an investigation under way, District Immigration Director Eddie E. Adcock estimated that perhaps as many as 1,500 Canadians had crossed the river in recent weeks to become U.S. soldiers...
Sterling and his technicians from the Department of Commerce had the peacetime experience of tracking down radio-using rum runners, smugglers, gamblers, practical jokers. Their prime weapon was the Adcock Direction Finder (built and perfected by Sterling and his men), which has a long antenna on a 40-ft. tower and gives the approximate point of origin of any radio signal. RID now has 30-odd Adcocks in the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico...
Handling the incredibly complicated British-American supply job in A.F.H.Q.'s G-4 are 47-year-old Brigadier General Clarence Adcock and his British deputy, 47-year-old Brigadier R. R. Lewis. Also concerned with U.S. supplies and personnel is Major General Everett Hughes, head of a separate U.S. administrative staff. Drawing supplies 1,900 miles from Britain, 4,100 miles from the U.S., these officers must work at least three months ahead of battle schedules. At least once they vetoed an invasion plan because the supplies could not be promised in time. Says Brigadier Lewis: "Someone just...
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