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Despite the graduation of captain Charley Walsh, McInnis has no catching worries. Last year's second string backstop, Dick Clasby, has the nod there, with sophomore Don Butters also highly touted. Butters brought a fine reputation with him from Natick High, but was on probation all last year...
...subscription. With added grants from university funds, this amount would boost the Divinity School's endowment to a prosperous $7,000,000. Given the money, Harvard Divinity plans to create a larger faculty, enroll more students, increase the number of courses (some of which can be used to backstop the weak program of undergraduate religious instruction...
Behind Johnny and the whole system are other precautions which backstop the delivery of TIME. Each issue is printed in plants in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Paris, Honolulu, Tokyo and Havana (where we just recently began printing the Latin American Edition). If deliveries from one printing point are endangered, other points can come to the rescue. And, of course, copies can be shifted back & forth among newsstands and local distributing centers. In emergencies, extra copies have been flown to disaster points to avoid delays in delivery. When virtually all forms of land transport were bogged down by the July floods...
...Science Monitor and the Anglophobe Chicago Tribune, which carefully scanned Reuters' file first to make sure there was no British bias. But many U.S. newsmen still do not consider Reuters anywhere near as valuable as A.P. or the United Press, and often U.S. newspapers use Reuters largely to backstop their other wire services. Last week, at its centenary dinner, standing with Prime Minister Attlee and Sir Christopher Chancellor, an American proposed the principal toast. Said he: "I call upon my fellow guests ... to join with me in toasting a very great institution ... I give you the toast of REUTERS...
...Giants' Catcher Rafael Noble (pro nounced No-blay), a hulking (214 Ibs.), barrel-chested backstop, who batted .316 for Oakland, Calif, last season. Cuban-born "Ray" Noble has already played in the Polo Grounds-with the New York Cubans. This year, Manager Leo Durocher expects cat-quick Noble to be the Giants' No. 2 catcher behind Wes Westrum...