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Sitting on the bench in Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Gehrig (known as Buster to his teammates) blubbered as he watched Babe Dahlgren take over his old stamping ground at first base, then silently watched his buddies hand the Tigers their worst defeat (22-10-2) in 27 years.* He graciously shook hands with young Dahlgren after the game, but the only Yankee who dared try to console him was Pitcher Lefty Gomez. "Hell, Lou." said Lefty, "it took 15 years to get you out of the game; sometimes I'm out in 15 minutes." In the grandstand, viewing...
...came for Lou through a loudspeaker announcement that he had asked to be benched in favor of Babe Dahlgren. Following this baseball bombshell the cheers for Lou rang out as loudly as they ever did when he hit the mightiest of homers...
...mile expedition into the wilds of Brazil. He was disturbed, he said, by a shortage of carnauba wax. With him were a Johnson research chemist, a Johnson purchasing agent, two pilots, field laboratory equipment, specimen cases, cinema cameras, guns, fishing rods. Heading for Para, Brazil, was Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, botany curator of Chicago's Field Museum. Although the expedition had the earmarks of a happy combination of pleasure and publicity, Johnson's President Johnson announced that he would search for new growths of carnauba palm, whose leaves supply the basic substance of high-grade wax and polish...
Last week he took the single-seater experimental fighter to the Navy's proving ground at Dahlgren, Va. for final acceptance tests. Carefully "beefed up" to withstand the terrific strain of power dives and pullouts, the ship was built to outperform and outfight any combat plane in existence. Gehlbach took it up 12,000 ft., kicked it over into a tight spin. The plane never came...
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