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...gentleman-adventurer, is 21, short, not good-looking, full of adolescent illusions about himself, intelligent and endearing. The brisk plot recounts his efforts to restore to beautiful Marian Barking her stolen estates. Author Myers' women are somewhat featureless, his male characters agreeably vital-in particular, one Tom the Crowder, a malefactor with more entertainment value than Ulysses' sirens, and much less conscience. Author Myers' period painting is unobtrusive, his humor humorous. Occasional references to carnal pursuits give a discreet impression of Elizabethan lust...
Since that day, jovial Joe Engel has probably discovered more big-time baseballers than any other scout in the business. He dug up Goose Goslin, Alvin Crowder, Bump Hadley, Buddy Myer, Cecil Travis, Bucky Harris. He also unearthed Joe Cronin, picked up in Kansas City for $7,500 and sold seven years later -after he had become the Senators' manager and married the boss's daughter - to the Boston Red Sox for $250,000. Engel's "finds" helped bring Washington three pennants in ten years...
...General Johnson but Major General Enoch H. Crowder was director of the draft in World War I. But civilians handled registration, ruled on craft matters. Today even the director is a civilian, and, as TIME said, the Army keeps "as far as possible from civilian draftees until they are actually inducted into service...
...Whitter, Cambridge Richard Herr Posy Platt, Wellesley Thomas A. J. Herzford Gay Crosby, Wellesley Henry R. Heyburn Phoebe Rotch, Boston John W. Hird, II Patricia German Richard A. Hirschfield Betty Johnson, Marblehead William A. Hoftyzer Jo Parrish, Smith Robert H. Hoskins Marguerite Allen, Wheelock William K. Humphrey Juliet Crowder, Wellesley Robert T. Hurley Phebe Perry, Vassar Albert F. Hyde, II Alison Gilman, Winsor School Carl H. Imlay Barbara Cosgrovo, Simmons, Sidney C. Jackson Julie Ann Dolan, Simmons Eugene P. Johnson Barbara Sommes, Simmons Charles W. Joyce Jane Hill, Sarah Lawrence Summer R. Katze Clare Werther, Endicott Maxwell Kaufer Doroty Cohen...
Joseph Paul Di Maggio Jr. learned baseball on San Francisco's windy Funston playground, baseball kindergarten of big-league players like Oscar Vitt, Alvin Crowder, Umpire Babe Pinelli. One day the playground coach, Edward Hennessey, found him peering through a knothole at the San Francisco Seals, introduced him to their president, Charlie Graham. The Seals tried young Di Maggio at shortstop but he showed a tendency to throw ball to the outfield instead of first base. That was in 1932. In 1933 Joe Di Maggie's older brother Vincent, Seals outfielder, hurt his shoulder, was released...