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...caught some pretty good pitching staffs in my time," said Cleveland Manager Al Lopez, "but this tops them all." Ex-Catcher Lopez (Brooklyn, 1930-35) was in a mood to crow. By this week the Indians had won eleven straight, 38 of their last 47 games, had pulled themselves up from ten games off the pace to a lead of two and a half games over the New York Yankees in the nip & tuck American League pennant race...
...unsegregated plane and Pullman, in segregated buses and in Jim Crow railroad coaches, delegates of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People descended on Atlanta, capital of the Deep South. They met in the Deep South for the first time since an earlier convention in Atlanta in 1920. Thirty-one years had made startling changes in both the N.A.A.C.P. and Atlanta...
...spent the last 25 years of his life "among the colored peoples of the world," sympathized with their aspirations and needs. As for courts-martial, MacArthur agreed that they might have been excessive, pointed out that he had launched an investigation. And if he had used "Jim Crow" military units, he had not created them: "They were created in Washington and sent to me ... I did not ask for men by race, I asked ... for 'men.' " Then MacArthur fixed Roberts with a stern stare, and gave him his lead for his two-part Courier series this week. Said...
Varsity coxswains Warren Clark and George Walker gave way to a real master during the first workout at Red Top, crow training headquarters, yesterday...
...example, after many a laudatory word about U.S. generosity in the Marshall Plan, he once summed up his sentiments in a way to bring cheers from home: "I await the day when we shall be sending bundles for America and floating loans for Washington. That day I shall crow until I am hoarse...