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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American League fans who used to ask "What's wrong with the Red Sox?" now ask "What's wrong with the Indians?" Chosen by springtime experts as most likely to succeed, the Indians succeeded only in taking a batch of batting and pitching honors. Of the five American League pitchers to win 20 or more games this year, three were Indians: Bob Lemon (22-11), Early Wynn (23-12), Mike Garcia (22-11). Cleveland led the league in runs and in home runs, owned the three top run scorers (Roberto Avila, Al Rosen, Larry Doby...
...auto industry, though scrabbling for manpower and materials, last week was bursting with plans and hopes for 1953. In the works are the biggest batch of changes in a decade: new bodies, airconditioning, power steering, power brakes and engines so peppy that every driver can feel like a hot-rodder. By hiring women and bringing back pensioned employees (as the United Auto Workers asked Ford to do last week), automen think they can meet their arms schedules and still turn out 5,000,000 cars in 1953, about the same number as this year...
Modern English novelists, like Japanese farmers, often cultivate small patches of ground for maximum yields. Angus Wilson, 39, does most of his digging in mildewing sections of the British middle class. In The Wrong Set, a batch of 13 craftsmanlike stories, he unearthed a nest of hypocrites, perverts and bores. In his first novel. Hemlock and After, he lifts a rock from more human vermin...
Korea veterans are registering at the University this fall in the first large batch since the beginning of the Far Eastern conflict, the Veterans Office announced yesterday. Of a total 55, 12 of them are enrolled in the College...
...middle of a Negro neighborhood. Rosary draws students from Pa-ducah's entire Negro community. Five years ago. when Rosary first started in a modest private residence, there were not more than ten Negro Catholics in Paducah (pop. 32,828); today there are about 85. In the first batch of 30 pupils, not one was a Catholic; of today's 150, some 40 are Catholic. Most of them became converts at Rosary...