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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both sides of the Channel, newsmen mobilized enough equipment to report a medium-sized war: rocket signals, marine radios, walkie-talkies, telescopes, carrier pigeons, eight boats and three planes. But Shirley May's target date (Aug. 14) came & went. Reporter Bob Musel, ghosting her diary for N.E.A. and covering the story for United Press, blamed repeated postponements on training hitches and bad weather. Delicately, he skirted the main reason, which Editor & Publisher reported as "a delay due to a monthly occurrence peculiar to women...
...average general practitioner is not necessarily careless when, after a long day of rounds and "office hours, he dozes over the medical journals which are supposed to keep him up to date on his profession. Even the widely read (circ. 130,000) Journal of the American-Medical Association is printed in forbiddingly long columns and crammed with purposefully dull medical jargon, often in small type. Its illustrations are hard-to-read charts or muddy photographs...
...syndicate was even more annoyed and upset than Harper's Bazaar. It accused Vogue of breaking by three weeks a "gentlemen's agreement" on the fashion release date, indignantly described the action as "a moral abuse of confidence." What worried the French designers was the prospective loss of thousands of dollars' worth of business: they were afraid that U.S. designers would flood the U.S. market with copies before their originals could make the boat. At week's end, the syndicate had reportedly decided on a stern punishment: banning Editor Jessica Daves of the American edition...
...this week, B.E.A.'s replies were rolling in, half of them in Latin. Said one, freely translated: "Most learned manager of sales: Nothing would be more welcome to me than to ... travel to Rome . . . But the LIII libras are lacking unto me. Farewell." Total response to date...
Pasquel offered him $75,000 cash to sign (and double the salary he was getting with the Cardinals). Stan promptly made a date with Cardinal Owner Sam Breadon to say goodbye. But Eddie Dyer, in serious danger of becoming a manager without a ball club, saw Musial first. Stan stayed around, led the league with a .365 batting average, helped win the pennant and the World Series, was elected the league's most valuable player...