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First crack out of the box, the new owners of the Boston National League Baseball Club last week changed its nickname back from The Bees to the Braves. Its previous nicknames: Doves (after Owner George B. Dovey), 1907-12; Bean Eaters...
Married. Emer de Valera, second daugher of Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, language student at the National University, Dublin; and Brian 0 Cuiv, on of the late bean-tall, droop-mustached Sean O Cuiv, director of Eire's Information Bureau; in Dublin. Taoiseach de Valera gave the bride away...
...Owen, a Grade A catcher; 3) onetime Pirate Paul Waner, seasoned outfielder; 3) Second Baseman Alex Kampouris, who led the International League in home runs last year. Besides, they have mighty Joe Medwick, the slugger whom Boss Larry MacPhail bought for $132,500 last summer, only to have him beaned and made ball-shy for the rest of the season. This spring, comforted by a bean-proof plastic headguard which all Dodgers are compelled to wear inside their caps, Muscle Man Medwick seems to be back in the groove: in eleven exhibition games he batted .395, hit nine home runs...
...certain stages of the painting, before its medicine was too strong to be dangerous, official pictures were allowed.) For three days the sand painters worked at their picture-a great circle of square-shouldered spirits interspersed with bright-hued corn, tobacco, squash and bean plants, a dragon...
...after his private plane plunked into a California field, long-lipped, string-bean Jimmy Stewart, best cinemactor of 1940, barged through a suitably large mob of female admirers into a Los Angeles trolley car, departed with other draftees for a year in the Army. Jimmy figured to make rather less money this year - $21 a month instead...