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When to Relax. Such clutch hitting and pitching makes Dressen's managing job seem easy. He claims it is: "Hell, they manage themselves." But Charley Dressen had added something to make a runaway leader out of a team that (under Burt Shotton) floundered along behind Philadelphia most of last season, then lost the pennant on the final day by failing when the chips were down...
...good fellow so I said O.K.-on one condition-that it should be a really hot number, at the top of its own class. You know the result. I played boogie-woogie, and I enjoyed it!" (The movie: Thousands Cheer, with Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson, Judy Garland and a clutch of other stars...
Scripps fathered the chain-newspaper idea: in his day, he bought or founded 49 newspapers. When he died of apoplexy one day in 1926, 71-year-old E. W. Scripps was head of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers (24), founder-boss of the United Press and of a whole clutch of lesser enterprises. But anybody looking for an orderly record of Scripps's empire-building-or for an inspirational credo to put into the hands of journalism students-had better look elsewhere...
...began to go off. In tones of hurried, hoarse outrage, Mayor Vincent Impellitteri gave Water Commissioner James J. Moran 24 hours to resign the $15,000-a-year lifetime job which Bill O'Dwyer had given him last summer. Next day, face ashen, hands shaking, Moran let a clutch of reporters into his Brooklyn house and read off a letter of resignation. He did not mention Crane's tale of giving him $55,000, ended up in feeble defiance: "With a stomach which can no longer digest the hypocrisies of the so-called politicians, I hereby tender...
...have measured the earth's gravitation, analyzed fireflies' light, measured the abrasiveness of female knees (in connection with the durability of silk stockings). The first alternating-current radio set came from the bureau. So did the "printed circuit" for miniature radios and hearing aids, and the "magnetic clutch" that is being used in more & more kinds of machinery...