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Last week U. S. cartoonists had an exciting new problem-Wendell Willkie. Their first task was to collect their wits. Then they squinted hard at Willkie's big, slightly stooped frame, his mastiff face (it would "batter" well, they observed), a mouth whose long, stubborn upper lip twinkled at the corners...
...strike, then a grounder, right into Cookie Lavagetto's mitt. Frey came up. A strike, two balls, another strike, another ball. It seemed eternity before the announcer spoke: a fly, high into right field-Cullenbine took it just in front of the bleachers. Then came Goodman, a dangerous batter in a tight spot. The first was high and inside. Then the announcer's voice rose to a deafening crescendo. "Folks it's a no-hitter!" Old Tex Carleton, 33, and recently resurrected from the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers, had mown down the mighty Reds...
...Marguerite, who had gone to Chicago from their farm in Van Meter, Iowa. Ma Feller in years gone by had often "cried her eyes out" because little Bob and his father used to spend so much time behind the barn playing ball. Last week, when the last White Sox batter had been put out, Ma Feller was in tears again, but for a different reason...
...feet of lumber from Duluth grain elevators. To keep up with their destruction, the Roses need 200 administrative employes, sometimes employ as much as $100,000 worth of equipment on a single job, including bulldozers, clam shell buckets, a two-ton steel weight swung from a boom to batter walls and floors. But peacetime wrecking technology is not subject to much change...
...flour and salt into basin, make a well in centre, break in eggs, stir gradually, mixing in flour from the sides, and add milk by degrees until a thick smooth batter is formed. Beat well for ten minutes, then add remainder of milk, cover, and let it stand for at least one hour in refrigerator. About half-an-hour before beef is due to be done take deep dish, put in a thin layer of dripping taken from meat tin, and while dish and dripping are getting thoroughly hot in oven beat up batter well again. Take dish and dripping...