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...largely to the pitching proficiency of one Private Johnny Lund, a big tobacco-chewing Swede from Portland, Ore., who holds the dubious distinction of being the property of the Philadelphia Phillies. Lund allowed only three hits, struck out nine in the seven-inning game. Losing pitcher was Aircraftsman George Dickinson, who was just as good. He gave only three hits in the five innings that he pitched -two of them veriest scratches -but four Australian errors, two of them his own, marked him as the losing pitcher with the score 2-to-1 when he withdrew...
...other profitable landmarks in Little, Brown's long history were the purchase, in 1898, of the list of Boston's now defunct Roberts Brothers, and a joint publishing agreement in 1925 with the Atlantic Monthly Co. The Roberts list brought Little, Brown properties like Poet Emily Dickinson, Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson (whose Ramona was the dernier cri of the '80s), Edward Everett Hale (The Man Without a Country), Louisa M. Alcott.* Under the arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly Press, the Atlantic Monthly acts as a kind of Little, Brown scout. This has brought Little, Brown books like...
Henry R. Hatfield, Professor of Accounting at the University of California, has been appointed to deliver the annual Dickinson Lectures on accounting at the Harvard Business School next April...
...went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from God" he would run for office again. "I've heard nothing from Heaven yet," he added...
Omitted from TIME'S excellent account of the visit were the names of Brushface's pretty guides, Nancy Haman and Doris Dickinson, whose smiles kept Krause happy and decorated scores of photographs...