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Head of the school is able Dr. Halford L. Hoskins. onetime dean (1933-44) of Tufts College's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Faculty members include such practicing experts as John Newbold Hazard. FEA authority on Russia, John S. Dickey, director of the State Department's Office of Public Affairs, Herbert Feis, economic consultant to the War Department. They do most of their teaching in seminars. Maximum enrollment has been tentatively set at 130. Students may attend from a few months to two years. At present they range in age from 20 to 46 (average...
...Yankees, perennial pennant winners under Joe McCarthy, had pitching trouble, too. All season they had missed the deft touch of longtime star catcher (now Navy Lieut.) Bill Dickey. Last month they also lost veteran catcher Rollie Hemsley to the Navy. But like all Yankee clubs, the present one is giving its pitchers plenty of hitting help...
...veteran. They were the members of his personally picked, alltime, all-star team: George Sisler, "the greatest first baseman ever" (now a Brooklyn Dodgers scout); Eddie Collins, second base (Boston Red Sox general manager); Frank ("Home Run") Baker, third base (Maryland farmer); Honus Wagner, shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates coach); Bill Dickey, catcher (U.S. Navy); Lefty Grove, pitcher (Maryland coupon clipper); Walter Johnson, pitcher (Maryland farmer); Tris Speaker, center field (Cleveland wine distributer); and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, right field (who lives on annuities in Manhattan). Absent were Lieut. Commander Mickey Cochrane, catcher, who failed to get leave, and Ty Cobb, left...
...Louis' Chase Hotel, Corporal Joe Gantenbein, onetime (1940) infielder on the Athletics, slapped the Yankees' Bill Dickey on the back, asked if Dickey remembered...
Less affected by baseball's innumerable hoodoos are the other names that should shine in baseball's biggest event: the Yankees' aging (36) Bill Dickey, a Gibraltar of a catcher for 16 years, who hits .348 in those games he feels spry enough to play; the Cardinals', shy Stan Musial, a sprinting outfielder who leads the National League in hitting (.358); Yankee third-baseman Bill Johnson, whom Connie Mack calls the year's best rookie...