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That Man Louis. Harry Truman's decision to fire Louis Johnson was not a sudden one. For months his Defense Secretary had been a problem. White House conferences had been frequently blue with the complaints of colleagues who had suffered from Johnson's undercutting, ham-handedness, blooper-blowing. With his customary loyalty to his staff, Mr. Truman had defended him before the country...
...good for only one base. A last minute bobble provided the undoing, however, and as Foynes struggled with the ball, two runs scored. Seventh, Walsh singled and went to second when shortstop Dowd threw badly. A wild pitch advanced him to third, and he scored on Myles Huntington's blooper single over second base...
...visitors picked up their run in the seventh when Ed Smith dropped a blooper double into right, went to third on a wild pitch, and scored on Ernie Wohler's sacrifice. Catcher Sherrill Houston and Meears gleaned the two other Crimson safeties, Houston's on a single to center in the sixth and Meears' on a broken bat hit to right in the eighth...
...very first column, she perpetrated a lulu to the effect that Greta Garbo, who was soon, she said, to marry Leopold Stokowski, had undergone inspection by Stokowski's patrician Philadelphia relatives. Stokowski has no patrician Philadelphia relatives. A rudimentary instinct for checking sources would have spared Hedda that blooper...
Crooner Bing Crosby and 29,427 other baseball fans shivered in their topcoats. Said Bing: "This ain't fit weather . . . they ought to throw put a football." The thing that Rip ("Blooper Ball") Sewell tossed at the Chicago Cubs may have looked like a football but it wasn't, and Crosby's Pirates (Bing owns about 20% of the Pittsburgh club) won their opening game...