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...wonder when he played for the Braves, was moved to protest: "Any time O'Connell hits two home runs in one game, something's wrong. In his three and a half years here, with normal foul lines of 320 ft., he hit exactly NONE." Then the Chicago Cubs came to town. They demolished the Dodgers, 15-2, and hit four homers to the Dodgers' two. Three of the Cub homers were hit over the friendly fence by Rightfielder Lee Walls, who took all last season...
...such a hurry to be on his way that he left the university without bothering to pick up his Phi Beta Kappa key. In 1922, after a bicycling trip through Europe, he went confidently to work as a $15-a-week cub on the Chicago Daily News. When the Teapot Dome scandal broke in 1924, he landed one of his first out-of-town assignments by observing that none of the news stones said what Teapot Dome looked like. In a breathless Inside report from Wyoming that made Best News Stories of 1924 and foreshadowed a familiar Guntheresque ploy...
...father of the "Teddy bear" was the Washington Post's Cartoonist Clifford Berryman (1869-1949) who, in 1902, was moved by T.R.'s refusal to shoot a cub during a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi. The wedding reception incident four years later did a lot to popularize Berryman's baby...
...Piper. A successful oilman who made his stake in the early Pennsylvania fields, Bill Piper Sr. started business in 1929 and, like his colleagues, often wished, as he almost went broke, that "I'd never gotten into this aviation business." Yet today, with three modern versions of its Cub plus its $34,990 twin-engined Apache, Piper is solidly in the black and ready to expand...
Cessna 150, an all-metal two-seater designed as the company's first real move into the lowest-price brackets to compete with Piper's fabric-covered Super Cub for the pleasure-flying market. Cruising speed: 115 m.p.h. Price: around $7,000, some $2,000 less than the cheapest four-place Cessna...