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...code defining the "main task" of the press as counteracting war propaganda and Fascist ideas. Next big step: a world conference of journalists to approve the code. If it is approved, it will still be only a "recommendation" for journalists, not a law. But any nation that wants to bat down newsmen will find the code a handy club...
...particular problem of beating the Boston Red Sox that day was of mere academic interest. It was solved in typical Yankee fashion: a two-run pinch double by lumbering (230 lbs.) Johnny Mize, now 39, but still able to wield a potent bat. Final score: 7-4. After the game Stengel said happily: "A hitter like John can rifle that ball even if he has to be wheeled up to the plate.* He'll win or help win some games for us in the pinch this year, same as last...
...also possible, McInnis said, that Clasby will win a starting role in the outfield against left-handed pitching. A right-handed swinger, he would replace either Bob Smith or Ralph Robinson, both of whom bat from the other side of the plate...
...newborn bat was a female albino. Dubkin had often regretted that he could not tell the bats apart. Now he watched the birth of one that could not be mistaken for another. He named her "The White Lady" and resolved to watch her through her entire life cycle...
...this point Dubkin's mother gave up, packed her things and fled to California for a long visit with relatives, leaving her son alone with his White Lady. To test the bat's homing ability, Chiropterophile Dubkin took her on long drives. She flew home from Milwaukee (90 miles) faster than he could drive. When the male bats arrived in September, he realized it was time for the White Lady to carry on with her own life, so he put her back in the grotto to find her mate...