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Damn Yankees tells of a fanatical middle-aged rooter for the Washington Senators who mutters that he'd sell his soul to have them take the pennant from the Yankees. At once a buyer with a cloven hoof appears, and transforms beefy Joe Boyd into lithe, 22-year-old Joe Hardy, the greatest ballplayer of all time. There is, however, an escape clause in the deal; and to keep Joe from escaping his clutches, the Devil puts redheaded Miss Verdon to work as an enchantress...
...Bailey, Dick Savern, and Bill McAllister tied for second with 82 medal scores. Jim Jones, Doug Boyd, and Brock Stokes tied for the remaining two berths. These three and Bob Ornsteen, who dropped out after nine holes because of hay fevor, will play off today for the fifth and sixth positions...
With Britain's air prestige at stake, the government is doing everything possible to make the new planes a success. In the House of Commons, Transport and Civil Aviation Minister John Boyd-Carpenter announced that government-owned British Overseas Airways would honor its order for twelve Comet II's and five Comet Ill's, added that BOAC might even up its order with three more Comets. The Royal Air Force will also lend a helping hand by taking the remaining five Comet I's off BOAC's hands, use them for research and development...
...foreign airlines, which have 26 Comet II's and Ill's on order, have canceled out, de Havilland will have to renegotiate each contract again, and it has 20 Comet II's already substantially completed in its hangars. To guard against too heavy a loss. Minister Boyd-Carpenter said that "a number of Comet II's in a modified version are being ordered for delivery to the R.A.F. . . as early as the work involved allows...
...Dial brothers got their slaves from jails. They paid the Negroes' fines, drove them home to work on the Dial farms near Boyd, Ala., and kept them there by force. Fred Dial beat one with a lariat, and soon afterward the man died of pneumonia. When the slave's mother got possession of his body, she saw the cuts and bruises on it and asked her white employer for help. He told authorities, and the FBI moved...