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...spring day in 1931 a dust-covered, bowlegged young man, with a hawk nose, buffalo shoulders and long, hairy arms, marched into the St. Louis Cardinals' training camp in Bradentown, Fla. and announced to Manager Frank Frisch: "I'm Martin." Manager Frisch stared. Then he asked Rookie Martin why he was late. Martin explained that he had been detained in jail for riding a freight. "But we sent you railroad tickets." Retorted Martin: "What do you take me for, a dope? I cashed them in and rode for nothing...
...Irish father and Dutch mother in Oklahoma, Pepper Martin had tussled with a rattlesnake as a tot, eloped at 24, kicked around in the minor leagues for seven years. Powerful and ungainly, he played baseball by main strength, sometimes throwing his bat at the ball, charging like a buffalo across the diamond, sliding into bases head first. The way he cut up ball fields made him the despair of ground keepers; the way he smeared up his uniform by diving at bases and the ball gained him the title of "baseball's dirtiest player...
...Burwell '41, East Aurora; Joseph P. Downer '43, New York; William C. Dutton '43, Rochester; Henry Edelheit '42, Johnson City; David R.V. Golding '41, Brooklyn; Raymond C. Guth '43, Brooklyn; Robert R. Hackford '43, Gardenville; Howard G. Hageman '42, Albany; Peter J. Hearst '43, New York; James Holderbaum '42, Buffalo; Gabriel Jackson '42, Mount Vernon...
Arthur C. Jaros, Jr. '41, Mount Vernon; Donald C. Johnson '43, Buffalo; Martin C. Johnson '43, Brooklyn; Howard A. Joos '43, Rochester; John A. Kessler '42, Buffalo; Spencer A. Klaw '41, Carmel; Robert F. Kolkebeck '43, Brooklyn; Lawrence Lader '41, New York; Murray A. Lampert '42, Brooklyn; Perry D. LeFevre '43, New Paltz; Nathaniel S. Lehrman '42, Albany; Wallace B. Liverance, Jr. '41, Malverne, L.I.; John M. London '41, New York; Martin Lubin '43, Brooklyn...
Inquisitive Reporter. In Washington, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan reported a conversation that took place one day last week at a White House press conference. First apologizing for his presumption, Reporter Merwin H. Browne of the Buffalo News asked Franklin Roosevelt a question: "In your forthcoming political speeches do you intend to answer charges . . . that you are seeking to become a dictator ... if you are elected to a third term...