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...Babe Ruth, having announced his retirement at the end of this season because he had reached the age of 40, received a birth certificate from his sister, learned that...
...playthings, schoolbooks surround the solemn child as she grows up. At 15 she stares into space, a mirror on her lap. She emerges into starry light, the world at her feet, on her bridal night. "Full Bloom" shows her, arms outstretched in the shape of a cross, facing her babe who sleeps beneath another lucent Buttermilk Tree...
Busily creating 150,000 babies day in, day out throughout the world, Nature occasionally gets befuddled and turns out a creature which is neither girl nor boy. The child may have all a boy's outer characteristics, but internally have a girl's organs. Or a newborn babe may look like a girl and then grow up into a strange state of sexlessness. Such ambiguous children are called hermaphrodites...
...Boston, where he first played major-league baseball as a pitcher for the Red Sox in 1914, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth last week announced: "I'm definitely through as a regular player at the end of this season." His plans: a trip to Japan next Autumn, after that, "the best offer-if any." The New York Yankees bought Babe Ruth from Boston for $125,000 after the 1919 season. In the course of his career he had made 704 homeruns up to last week. His record for one season...
...week. In his first year as manager of the Detroit Tigers, he kept the team unexpectedly in second place for some six weeks. Last week, in a crucial series against the New York Yankees, Detroit won the first game and moved into first place. Next day, when Babe Ruth hit his 700th home run, the Yankees beat Detroit 4-to-2, regained first place. Detroit won the next two games, emerged from the series with a comfortable 17 game lead...