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Chicago's Al Lopez claims (for the ninth time in ten years) that he has a contender, and perhaps he does. Joe Cunningham (.295), Floyd Robinson (.312), and Al Smith (292) give him a significant outfield, but he has lots of troubles elsewhere--like the entire infield. Ray Herbert might win 20 games for the Chisox; if he doesn't forget it. There isn't much else on the staff...
...admission of China to the U.N., and described him as pro-Castro (Ryan had warned against the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. Recently he supported the President's blockade decision). He decried Ryan's opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee, and described his vote against the Cunningham Amendment (which would cut off publication-exchanges with Communist countries) as a vote for "the importation of anti-semitic, anti-Catholic and anti-religious literature...
...Welcome. Allied troubles, writes Pond, began at sea. The British forces under the command of Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, and the Fifth Army under Lieut. General Mark Clark never did reach final agreement on battle plans. So many last-minute revisions of battle plans were made that finally nobody even bothered to read them. Clark's idea was to take the enemy by surprise; therefore, over the objections of the British, he forbade any bombardment of the coast before the troops were landed. But German planes spotted the armada, and German troops, ably commanded by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring...
...CUNNINGHAM: The Voice of Conscience
JOHN PHILIP CUNNINGHAM, 65, is the debonair Don Quixote of advertising. As executive committee chairman of Cunningham & Walsh (1961 billings: $48.5 million), he publicly lambastes the vulgar sell ("When we load the television screen with arrows running around people's stomachs, we are boring the public") and the oversell ("When we plaster five different commercial messages right after one another at station-break time, we are boring the public"). Harvardman ('19) Cunningham gets away with such blunt talk because admen admire him as one of the great copywriters of all time. Among his notable creations: Chesterfield...