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...really just a snoring shame. They lie around on their backs half the day, with their legs in the air like great tawny tabbies, and the rest of the time they lie on their stomachs and lick themselves. Once in a while Mother Lion gets up and carries a cub somewhere in her mouth, or leads him along with his tail between her teeth, but she soon lies down again. Father Lion does not indulge in such violent exertions. The king of beasts reclines in raunchy grandeur, and hardly ever does anything more than raise his head to peer weakly...
Brought up from the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs, Ernie hit .275 (including 19 homers) as a rookie last year, batted in 79 runs. Weighing only 170 Ibs., he depends on timing and strong wrist action to lift the ball. Said Cub Manager Stan Hack last week: "That boy's got no nerves. He's a real quiet, modest guy. After he hits a homer, he comes back to the dugout as if he done something wrong...
...Telegram (TIME, July 4), will become a full-time executive. But much of the day-to-day responsibility for the Tennessean (circ. 112,947) will remain in the hands of Editor-Vice President Coleman Harwell, a meticulous, imaginative newsman who joined the paper 28 years ago as an unpaid cub...
Besides Khan, Ash Hallot also placed high for the Crimson freshmen, taking the 11th position. These two men enabled the Yardlings to win the freshman competition over Princeton by a 94.4 to 79.8 score. Yale had no cub entries in the meet, which took place under ideal conditions...
...interest in journalism--he worked both as a cub reporter and a radio newscaster in Nigeria--led him to write a column for the Adelphi paper, under the rather irreverent title of "As Easy Sees It." Everything went well, Eze recalls, until one April 1, when the paper published a special April Fools' edition satirizing the president's wife. After that he turned to other, non-journalistic interests...