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...most prolific was Charles Hamilton, whose works (under a score of bylines) are discussed today with an "affection verging on reverence." In 30 years Hamilton turned out a total of 45 million words of popular school stories, and made the name of his most famous character, Billy Bunter, the fat schoolboy, an Empire byword. Today, far into his 70s, Hamilton is still going strong, and his schoolboy stories are even read in Braille...
...crowd the plate a little." Says Branch Rickey: "He is the best batter in the game with two strikes on him." Pitchers capitalize on his hasty swing by feeding him slow stuff. "I just can't hit those nuthin' pitches," Jackie complains. Because he is the best bunter in the game, the Dodgers "cut him loose" at the plate (i.e., let him decide for himself whether to take, hit or bunt). He and Pete Reiser are also the only Dodgers good enough to be "cut loose" on the bases, allowed to steal without waiting for a signal...
...HOOK OR CROOK-R. A. J. Walling-Morrow ($2). Good, conventional English slaughter in Devon, where old tin mines look like the money motive and Bunter's Pond the mortuary. Detective: the gentlemanly Philip Tolefree...
Edward G. Harris '38; Arthur R. Hartwig '37; Thomas H. Healy '39; Stephen Helburn '37; Solomon L. Iiershoff '37; Charles A. Hill '39; Robert B. Holden '38; Norman E. Hunt '38; Thomas C. Hunt '37; Lemuel B. Bunter '37; William C. Huntting '37; Gordon S. Lerardi '39; John Q. Jordan '37; Clifton F. Kahn '37; Charles W. Kessler '37; Joseph Levine '39; Lawrence M. Levinson...
Thomas R. Bunter '35, last year's cox, encouraged his would-be successors by saying that for the past two years. at least one previously inexperienced candidate had been taken down to Red Top. A Freshman crew will also be taken either to Annapolis for the Penn and Navy race or to New York for a sprint against Columbia and M.I.T. on the Harlem...