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...Cadets are starting Jim Jones, a righty, and have, according to records, only right-handed relief pitchers. Football quarterback Bobby Blaik will be at first base for the Cadets, and Tom Fitzpatrick (.357 last season) is a strong cleanup batter...
Cincinnati has good pitching and a fine cleanup batter in Ted Kluszewski, but little else. Pittsburgh has Ralph Kiner and Chicago has spirit, but nothing else...
...youthful industry has had its share of growing pains. After World War II, the business was invaded by scores of shoestring operators who tried to make a quick cleanup, flooded the market with tasteless, badly packed products and scared off so many consumers that sales slumped 20%. In 1947, more than 200 firms went bankrupt. But last year the industry hit its stride. More than 20% of all U.S. poultry (200 million Ibs.) came to dinner by way of the freezer. All told, the industry sold 1,130 million Ibs. of frozen foods and twelve million gallons of juice concentrate...
Regular Democrats applauded the Murphy cleanup but did their best to depict Impellitteri as just an amateur statesman. Republican candidates applauded too, but happily seized on the whole scandal as wonderful campaign proof of Democratic graft and incompetence. According to grapevine report, other Republicans were plotting feverishly to get Ambassador O'Dwyer hauled home to answer a long list of embarrassing questions...
...most surprising thing about them was the quiet orderliness of a sect whose best-known trait is getting thrown into jail. A day &. night cleanup squad of 500 Witnesses kept the stadium spotless with brooms, buckets and dustpans; pop bottles were banned from the stands. Exclaimed one police sergeant in astonishment: "That's the best-behaved crowd I've ever seen in my life...