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Somehow team morale survived. Shortstop Ruben Amaro, 25, and Third Baseman Charlie Smith, 23, tried so hard that they drove themselves to exhaustion and had to be benched. After collisions with a wall in St. Louis and a Scoreboard in Pittsburgh, Utility Outfielder Bobby Gene Smith went right on giving his all-until a physical examination revealed a broken rib. In the locker room, heads rarely sagged in despair. "We all felt we were going to win each day," said Pitcher Art Mahaffey, who lost ten games in a row. "If you lose that feeling, you might as well quit...
...opposition of his uncle, Count Matarazzo, Baby took over his family's metals plant a few years ago and made it into the largest nonferrous rolling mill in South America. For his redheaded fiancee, Nelita Alves de Lima, Baby is building a million-dollar house in suburban Santo Amaro with two Turkish baths, a shooting gallery, a bowling alley and an outdoor swimming pool. It will also have a 130-ft. indoor swimming pool with a cascade of water 30 ft. wide and 21 ft. high at one end. By swimming through his waterfall, Baby will find himself...
...first award of the newest U.S. medal, the Legion of Merit, to Chief Nurse Anna Bernatitus for "courageous and outstanding performance of duty during the Manila-Bataan campaign, December 1941 to April 1942." The week before, President Roosevelt had awarded the Legion of Merit to an ally, Brigadier General Amaro Scares Bittencourt, onetime Brazilian military attache in Washington...
Recalled: the prediction of one-eyed Mexican General Joaquin Amaro that "the time will come when Latin America will have to furnish 10,000,000 troops to the Allies...
...either in Texas or in northern Mexico. His "junta" in San Antonio still seemed to be without organization. So feeble were the Almazan efforts to toss the Government out that some haters of President Cardenas in Mexico City hinted they would transfer their allegiance to swart little General Joaquin Amaro, a tough, full-blooded Tarascan Indian who would love to seize power and run Mexico as a dictatorship...