Word: dolph
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Second-generation Italians made a clean sweep of U.S. baseball honors in the season just past. Joe DiMaggio, native of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player. Dolph Camilli, another San Franciscan, was voted Most Valuable in the National League. Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankee shortstop, was the outstanding rookie of the year...
Although interleague comparisons mean little, Brooklyn's Bums have as good a team batting average (.272) as the Yankees (.269). First Baseman Dolph Camilli (like Di Maggio, a product of San Francisco's Fishermen's Wharf) has batted in more runs (120) than any National League player this season and socked more homers (34) than any player in either league, except Ted Williams of the Boston...
...listeners knew where the broadcast was coming from. Even studio technicians of Washington's WOL were in the dark. The program was being piped into the station by telephone, but the control panel gave no clue about its origin. Mysteriously unavailable were WOL General Manager William B. Dolph and Program Director Madeline Ensign. The whole thing had a fine conspiratorial flavor, which was quite in keeping with the business at hand-a radio interview with burly, gap-toothed Jan Valtin (real name: Richard Julius Herman Krebs), who has been hiding out fearful of lethal attention from...
...Neither WOL nor MBS, its network, gave any publicity to the Valtin program. But long-nosed Manhattan Columnist Leonard Lyons sniffed out the news. Forthwith Washington began to stir.But reporters did not spot Valtin before the show and they did not find him afterward. While they waited outside Manager Dolph's penthouse apartment, intending to trail him to the broadcast, Valtin was ushered in by a back door, planted before a mike rigged up that afternoon...
Hash From Home. Citizens wondering how the majority could be thus dillied, did well to look toward La Salle and Ran dolph Streets in Chicago. At that busy corner, one day last week, a white horse stood. On the horse was Miss Elane Summers, 19, a Rockford (Ill.) College sophomore, in a Revolutionary getup which was supposed to make her resemble Paul Revere (see cut,p.11). Calling herself Pauline Revere, Miss Summers admonished the U. S.: "MOBILIZE FOR PEACE-DEFEAT CONSCRIPTION." Said alliterative Papa Summers (who in 1938 denounced Communists for luring his son Thane to death in Loyalist Spain...