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...Breadbasket Fielder. Life without a laugh was always unthinkable to Rabbit Maranville. The chunky little (5 ft. 4 in., 150 Ibs.) infielder tried plenty of gags, on and off the baseball field, from the very first day he played and made his first "breadbasket" catch of a fly ball. The catch, with cupped hands resting on his belt buckle as the ball skimmed by his peaked cap, always brought a gasp and then a cheer from the crowds, and it became the Rabbit's trademark. He performed legendary fielding feats with George Stallings' famed Boston Braves...
...After that, life speeded up for Mary. First, in a nationwide contest, Macfadden crowned her "Great Britain's Perfect Woman"; then he gave her the star turn in his physicultural demonstrations-that of springing nightly off a high table and landing "with both feet together on his breadbasket."* Between springs he poured into her astonished ear the truth about the breadbasket-how the Macfadden stomach revolted against breakfasts, steaks and alcohol, and how steel-strong it grew on a regimen of nuts, raw carrots and beet juice. She knew that he loved her when he took...
Described, not unkindly, as "a Bolivian concept of a Swiss federation adapted to an African absolute monarchy," the partnership of Ethiopia and Eritrea should have practical advantages. Landlocked Ethiopia has the resources of soil and climate to become East Africa's breadbasket. Eritrea has better-trained labor and coastal ports on the Red Sea. The federation's success, said departing Commissioner Anze Matienzo pointedly, depends on Ethiopia's "respect for Eritrea's constitutional progress and autonomy...
...report this week on the Missouri Valley is the largest color-picture supplement ever to appear in TIME: eight pages, including a two-page map, with a two-page story about the valley -breadbasket and problem child...
...front line he talked of is one of the richest areas in Asia-Manchuria. In the 2½ years since Mao Tse-tung's Communists captured China, it has become Red China's breadbasket, industrial heart and political bellwether. It is also the arsenal, supply depot and staging area for Chinese armies in Korea, and the constantly expanding haven of the 1,500-plane Red Chinese air force which hovers buzzard-like over the stalemate in Korea...