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...Chicago's frozen Comiskey Park field, the National (pro football) League's championship was played out in sneakers instead of cleated shoes. The Chicago Cardinals ran wild in them. Halfback Elmer Angsman (ex-Notre Dame) ripped off two touchdown runs of 70 yds.; Halfback Charlie Trippi (ex-Georgia) went 44 and 75 yds. The underdog Philadelphia Eagles did some cavorting, too, but not enough. The score: Cardinals 28, Eagles...
Then, after accepting the baseball writers' Comiskey Trophy for the Rookie of the Year, Jackie climbed into the new Cadillac that Dodger fans had given him at Ebbets Field, and headed for Hollywood. He will star in a movie tentatively called Brooklyn, U.S.A. and help Negro Sportwriter Wendell Smith finish Robinson's "autobiography...
Nearly 50 people gathered in the Lowell House Junior Common Room to see Ellis Kaplan '46 and Robin Worthington '47, of the Harvard Debating Council, attacking the fourth term, defeated by T. Lawrence Tolan and Steven Comiskey of Yale...
Attending his first baseball game, towering, cadaverous Lord Halifax, British Ambassador, saw the White Sox beat the Tigers, in Chicago, asked, "Do they throw the ball to hit the runner?"; asked of a hot dog, "What's inside it?"; posed poking at Sox Owner Charles Albert Comiskey II's baseball with a fountain...
With a possible pennant contender on her hands, she needed plenty of help. It was there in the person of swarthy Harry Grabiner, White Sox executive vice president, who has been running the club for years. What President Comiskey wanted most of all, however, was to turn the White Sox over to her son on his 21st birthday. Now 15, a strapping five-foot-ten, 165-pounder with a definite talent for baseball, young Charles Comiskey has one ambition-to be a great first baseman like his grandfather. If he makes it, he will be the first player-president...