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Dick Maguire, promising Sophomore, will start behind the bat today, with either Nevin or Gleason at first, Hayes or Fitzpatrick at second, Johnny Adzigian at third; and either Hovenanian or Woodruff at shortstop...
...bill passed to censor the labeling and advertising of foods, drugs and cosmetics. He was for months sure of the President's hearty support. However, Congress has not shown much interest. A big food & drug lobby is fighting the bill, and the President has not gone to bat for it. Its chances of passage are fading...
...Legal? Belatedly, Postmaster General Farley went to bat in an attempt to justify the Administration's action. In his opinion, only modest National Parks Airways (Salt Lake City-Great Falls, Mont.) was entitled to have its contract reviewed, with the possibility of reinstatement. "General" Farley was convinced that there was "illegality"' in Postmaster General Brown's handling of airmail contracts, although, as yet, he had no basis for "criminal action." Some Farley charges...
...York last week Death, as it must to all creatures, came to the Bronx Zoo's female vampire bat, 16 weeks after Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars had brought her from Panama (TIME, Oct. 2). Three days later its 25-day-old baby died too, of indigestion and loneliness. That left the world without a single live vampire bat on exhibition...
...Ditmars' trip to Panama last summer had made New York's Bronx Zoo unique throughout the world in the possession of a live vampire bat, a tiny, loathsome, jut-jawed creature which lives on blood sucked from beasts and men (TIME, Oct. 2). Thriving on defibrinated blood obtained fresh daily from an abattoir, the captive has now presented its owners with the first vampire bat ever born...