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Next day the storm blew out as quickly as it had blown up, went whirling down the coast to batter California. There rain fell in whale-sized tubfuls: San Diego, which normally gets only three inches in the entire last half of the year, got more than that in a single day last week. At Salinas Airport, workmen anchored an iron hangar to four ten-ton ice trucks to keep it from blowing away. At a beach near San Francisco, waves slammed 100 feet beyond high water mark, knocked three houses off their underpinnings. Ten Coastguardsmen...
Philadelphia was a downtown triumph again. Fourteen weeks before, Wendell Willkie had arrived in a Pullman seat, with "headquarters under my hat," had walked the streets unnoticed. Now, the arrival of his 14-car special train was the signal for Philadelphia to blow its top, for thousands to batter at police lines just to get a look at him. At night, before 30,000 people in Shibe Park, he again attacked New Deal management of National Defense, charged bluntly...
...left-handed batter, Lupien while at college had the same success, twice leading the Eastern Intercollegiate League in batting to take the Charles H. Blair batting trophy two years in succession. His average in his Senior year...
...Hold each by the tail while stirring in rich batter, then fry. . . ." The Japs firmly believe that they have the world by the tail, especially when smearing on the rich batter of trade promises to stir up appeasement talk and dangling mythical profits from war materials as bait which we have swallowed hook-line-and-sinker for nine years, ". . . then...
...closes, Old Bo-Bo expects to win 30 games. Last week, only eleven days after he broke his thumb, he defied his doctor's orders, pitched a game against the Athletics. Starting out with his thumb wrapped in adhesive, he pompously ripped the bandage off after walking one batter, proceeded to strike out ten men before being sent to the showers in the eleventh inning with his first defeat since the opening game of the season. Undismayed at breaking his winning streak, Newsom shrugged his massive shoulders, proclaimed: "I'm startin' a new streak right...