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...characteristics of that volume. This applies to its defects as well as its merits. In fact so similar are they in temper, and in the manner in which the tragedy is developed as a "satire of circumstance" that one suspects that "Three Loves" was written before rather than after "Batter's Castle" and prepared for publication on the strength of the previous success...
...Herman, outfielder for the Brooklyn Robins since 1927. Herman is celebrated for allowing fly-balls to drop on his head, for transforming a homerun into a triple play (by passing two other base-runners), for carrying a lighted cigar in his pocket. But, because he is a powerful batter and at times a competent fielder, he is by no means a liability to his team. Last week Babe Herman was the central figure in the most important baseball deal of the training season. Brooklyn's new manager, Max Carey, who is trying to turn a clownish collection of eccentrics...
...squarely based on an old and familiar imponderable?public confidence. The measure's sponsors, however, have concluded that it takes something more real and concrete to restore public confidence than words and promises. Therefore they have armed the Federal Reserve with a new club so enormous as to batter down the worst popular fears. This club consists of an authorization to issue a potential $2.500,000,000 in new currency. Possibly the club may never be taken from the shelf for actual swinging; possibly banks can be stabilized without a new currency issue. If not, the Federal Reserve would...
...John Leonard Martin--centerfielder of St. Louis Cardinals, leaped to fame as batter in World Series...
Professor DuMond's multiple crystal spectrometer lets physicists look at electrons. The machine consists of 50 spectroscopes arranged in an arc. A crystal is placed in the range of a device and then bombarded by X-rays. The X-rays batter electrons free of their atoms. The spectrometer reveals, not exactly the electrons themselves, but splashes of energy which represent the electrons...