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According to legend, John A. Heydler, who last month retired as president of the National League, was the first man to keep batting, pitching and fielding averages. No. 1 contemporary baseball statistician is a one-legged, dyspeptic North Carolinian named Al Munro Elias. Started in 1917, the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau Inc. now supplies some 1,000 U. S. newspapers with daily & weekly statistics, releases yearly "unofficial" figures promptly at each season's close. The strange offices of the Al Munro Elias Bureau on Manhattan's 42nd Street contain the most elaborate baseball library in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dow-Jones of Baseball | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

South Carolina's run-off between Olin D. Johnston and Coleman Livingston Blease for the governorship. Candidate Blease, an oldtime, free-style rabble-rouser who has managed to keep himself on the public payroll pretty consistently since 1890, concludes his Who's Who biography: "The only South Carolinian who has been mayor of his city, senator from his county, speaker of the House, president of the State Senate, governor of the State 1911-15 and U. S. senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pickings & Choosings | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Trouble started three months ago when Representative De Priest's Negro secretary was refused food in the House Restaurant. Restaurant Manager Johnson takes his orders from Representative Lindsay Warren who is not only chairman of the House Accounts Committee but also a dyed-in-the-wool North Carolinian. Manager Johnson had orders to bar all Negroes (excepting, of course, Oscar De Priest) from the House Restaurant when fortnight ago a part-time Negro waiter, a student at Howard University, served a Negro. The waiter was promptly discharged. Next noon Manager Johnson was confronted by a delegation of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Uncle Tom & Social Equality | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

...Socialism. We do not want our present institutions wiped out!" Preparations for the House session began weeks ago in committee. Chairman Doughton had started his Ways & Means to work on a new revenue bill and on legislation to up liquor taxes. Last week it was reported that this North Carolinian, who has grown bald as a buzzard during his 22 years in the House, would be rewarded with a soft roost on the Tariff Commission just as soon as he finished putting the necessary tax legislation through the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Harmony | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

Many a South Carolinian promptly rose to denounce and deny a baseless slur not only on Edward F. Hutton (who in addition to his shooting preserve, maintains a large duck sanctuary) but also on the hospitality of his State. The Columbia Chamber of Commerce investigated the charge, found not even a rumor to support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Governor v. Editor | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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