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John D. Rockefeller Jr. has given $250,000 to Dartmouth for scholarships for sons of Dartmouth men who dies in the second world war, President John Sloan Dickey announced Tuesday...
Atomic Secrets. Braves Manager Billy Southworth was certain of it. "I'm afraid someone's going to get killed," he gloomed. Yankee Coach Bill Dickey was just as convinced: "It's making a joke of the game." Though both league presidents and the company which makes the balls denied any skulduggery, one player insisted: "The atom bomb secrets were sold to Spalding, not the Russians...
...call for David Laurance Chambers, president of Bobbs-Merrill, publishers, to ask for the names of those who knew their Riley lore best in this part of the country where Riley lore springs at you from everywhere. He suggested a Riley historian named Marcus Dickey, who has a studio at Bear Wallow down in the hills of Brown...
...years ago, not a single slugging first-baseman had reached the majors. The dearth of new catchers was just as serious. There wasn't a hard-hitting catcher in either league or one who could whip the ball down to second-base with the authority of a Bill Dickey or a Mickey Cochrane...
...Whenever the ballplayers themselves start gabbing about a youngster," said the Yankees' Bill Dickey, "it's a sign he's going to be around a while." Bill Dickey, like a lot of other baseball pros this spring, was talking of Detroit's 22-year-old John Thomas Groth...