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To celebrate his 48th year as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, baseball's spindly Connie Mack, 85, was presented with letters of congratulation from all 48 U.S. governors (neatly bound in a book). Sample tributes:
Since the day his story appeared on the newsstands, Joe Axelrod figures he has heard from just about everybody he ever knew (messages of congratulation, etc.). He has also received hundreds of letters (over 400 at this writing) from people he doesn't know, and one man, a Canadian...
In the Council House the Constituent Assembly heard Mountbatten take the oath as Governor General.†"Regard me as one of yourselves," he told them, "devoted wholly to the furtherance of India's interests." Then he swore in the new Indian Government. Messages of congratulation from over the world...
Cut Out. In Cedar Falls, Iowa, the alert chamber of commerce that sends out letters of congratulation to new mothers got one rather huffy reply: "What is this . . .? All I had was an appendectomy."
The U.S., implementing the Truman Doctrine, moved decisively. As the Communists, backed by their brethren from Moscow, took over Hungary's Government (see INTERNATIONAL), Secretary of State George Marshall promptly suspended the unused half of a whopping $30 million credit to Hungary. Then he gave cheer and congratulation to...