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...Misfired his first veto at the Both Congress. The bill was a Senate resolution authorizing his old friend Burt Wheeler to continue private law practice while serving as counsel for the Senate special war investigating committee. The President vetoed it, because of technicalities, on the advice of Attorney General Tom Clark, discovered to his embarrassment that he had signed similar legislation before. To save the presidential face, the Senate agreed to redraft the bill, send it through again...
...usual, popped out of Branch Rickey's Brooklyn surprise box. First, a last-minute switch nudged aging Arky Vaughan off third base, and gave the job to scrawny John ("Spider") Jorgensen; the rookie from Montreal batted in six runs in one game. Then Rickey announced that soft-spoken Burt Shotton, 62, would succeed exile Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as manager of the Dodgers...
Wholly unlike Durocher, grey-haired Burt Shotton had been thrown out of only two games in 39 years of playing, coaching and managing. Once before, with the Browns, he had pinch-hit as Rickey's "Sunday manager" (the day the boss stays home). Shotton would manage the Dodgers on faith, without a written contract. There was no official word on salary, but everybody knew that it was far less than the $60,000 Durocher would have drawn for the job. And there was little doubt that Shotton would step aside once Durocher was back in grace...
...Harvard's first victory over the Elis in any major sport since September, and it would have provided script material for Burt L. Standish, creator of the Frank Merriwell series--except that Merriwell came from Yale...
...People (at least in Britain) are becoming less intelligent, reported London Psychologist Sir Cyril Burt. It is an old story, said Sir Cyril, that the intelligent well-to-do have fewer children than the poor. The real hitch: "Among the far more (numerous working classes it is still the most intelligent families who contribute fewest to the next generation...