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...Falls, Ore., when prisoners sent their weekly orders for cigarettes, chocolate bars and magazines to a nearby store, Jailer Fred Calfee intercepted and rejected one list: 5 Ibs. of white rice, 1 large can of pineapple juice, 2 Ibs. of seedless raisins, 10 Ibs. of sugar, 2 cakes of brewer's yeast...
...estate of the late Walter O. Briggs Sr. for $5,500,000, with a promise to keep present President Walter O. ("Spike") Briggs Jr. on the payroll as executive vice president. No one ever paid more for a major league team. (Previous record: $4,550,000, paid by Brewer August A. Busch for the St. Louis Cardinals and ballpark in 1953.) For their money, Fred Knorr and his friends got an arguable bargain: a ball club with vague promise and an all too real position in the second division of the American League. But Fred Knorr...
MILWAUKEE'S SCHLITZ, top U.S. brewer in 1955 with 5,780,000 bbls. sold, is bidding to pull farther ahead of No. 2 Anheuser-Busch. For $2.5 million, Schlitz has bought Kansas City's 88-year-old George Muehlebach Brewing...
...away from the mudbank, then another left, downstream. Here the current was swift, and the column became a mass of bobbing men struggling desperately to keep their heads above water. Someone screamed for help. Then, in complete panic, there was a mad, clawing rush for the mudbank. Recruit Lew Brewer saw that big (6 ft. 3 in.) Norman Wood was in trouble. Brewer went to help, found himself pulled under water and fighting for his life against Wood's frenzied embrace. Brewer freed himself and surfaced; Wood was nowhere to be seen. Recruit Thomas Doorhy dragged Donald...
There is no end to Boston's pitching strength. Bob Porterfield seems slated for his best year ever; Willard Nixon can take twenty--and so can long Frank Sullivan--while the younger hurlers like Delock, Suce and Brewer should provide depth in the bullpen...