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...from the Milk Route. Roy Campanella has been nurturing that dream ever since he was 15, when he started playing baseball for pay in a North Phil adelphia neighborhood known as Nicetown, where he was born 34 years ago. From his Sicilian father, piano-legged Roy inherited his proportions and a capacity for enjoying hard work. While he supported a wife and five hungry kids on the pro ceeds of a vegetable wagon. John Cam panella still managed to save enough cash to chip in with his brothers and open a chain of neighborhood groceries. From his Negro mother...
...gentlemen of Detroit, in Manhattan last week, were the victims of a Philadelphia mis- understanding. They, C. R. Bitting and R. F. Shields, had gone to Phil- adelphia early in the week expecting to be made directors of Baldwin Locomotive Works. They conferred with Chairman Thomas S. Gates and President Samuel M. Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive and presented their credentials, voting stock proxies of the six Fisher Body brothers of Detroit.* They were told that not enough Baldwin Directors were in Philadelphia to make up a quorum. Mr. Bitting and Mr. Shields went to Manhattan to "enjoy the sights." Next...
...spring training trip inaugurated last year when two eights went to Phil adelphia, will be repeated this year, although its destination has not been made public...
...Pennypacker won his Track "H" in his senior year. He won the shot put in the intercollegiates of his senior year. He graduated with the class of 1888 and took up teaching at Adelphia Academy in Brooklyn, New York. After a few years he came to Boston Latin School, where he became headmaster. In 1920 he was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Admissions of the University, and since then he has retained this position...
...Author. Joseph Hergesheimer went first to a Friends' school in Phil adelphia, later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Of Quaker descent, his preoccupation has always been with beautiful surfaces, in landscapes, women, old furniture, centuries. A symposium of critics last year voted him America's most important novelist. His works include Mountain Blood, Three Black Pennys, Java Head, The Happy End, Cytherea, The Bright Shawl...