Word: crackerjacks
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...Guessing that McCarthy might be through, New York sportswriters began nominating possible successors: Yankee Coach Art Fletcher (unlikely), Manager Leo Durocher, of the Dodgers (possible) and ex-Yankee Lieut. Bill Dickey, now managing two crackerjack Navy teams touring the Pacific (popular). Babe Ruth nominated himself...
Fate, which seems to have played an unkind role behind this year's Harvard schedule, tomorrow night brings the slightly rehabilitated Crimson five to Davisville, Rhode Island, to tangle with a crackerjack Camp Thomas outfit...
...Builders. The huge destroyer program is being handled by veteran naval shipbuilders like Bethlehem, Federal (U.S. Steel subsidiary) and Maine's crackerjack Bath Iron Works. Most PC subchaser contracts are held by inland builders like Dravo Corp. in Pittsburgh (where fighting ships are being built for the first time since the War of 1812), and Michigan's DeFoe Shipbuilding. To swing the new & vital destroyer-escort program the Navy picked Bethlehem Steel's reliable yard at Hingham, Mass., and Brown Shipbuilding, a new yard at Houston...
Jesse Jones dipped into his big bag of tricks last week, came up with a crackerjack solution to the steel-scrap shortage: a multimillion-dollar RFC agency called War Materials, Inc., whose only reason for living is to buy at least 5,000,000 tons of iron and steel scrap as fast as possible...
...Crackerjack. Lanky Stanley Musial who started his career as a pitcher, is another crackerjack at bat. Last year he played in three different leagues, outhit the ultimate batting champion in each. Brought to St. Louis for a trial at the tail end of last season, he hit a sensational .426 in twelve games-during the Cardinals' hectic homestretch duel with the Dodgers. This year, although handicapped by a colossal pre-season buildup that would put the Indian sign on the most phlegmatic 21-year-old, Musial is hitting at a .315 clip...