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Last week, as the 1941 baseball season was about to begin, baseball experts were perversely all agog about its far-off end. Some of the best dope available came from an exciting dress rehearsal at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. There 48,000 jabbering fans turned out to watch the Dodgers and the New York Yankees, both returned from spring training in the South, play in a three-game exhibition series...
...clever. Sidney Toler, Warner Olan's successor as China's Confucius-Sherlock Holmes combine manages to keep a boatload of psychopathic treasure hunters, a pirate ghost, and his number-two son well in tow. If you can see Chan. Even if you can't, see Hope--the dope...
Then came the surprise-one of those studied slips of inside dope, those discreet indiscretions, which so delight the Prime Minister: "Not only German U-boats but German battle cruisers have crossed to the American side of the Atlantic and have already sunk some of our independently routed ships not sailing in convoy. They have sunk ships as far west as the 42nd meridian of longitude...
...flush and 21 with NBC tucked in its corporate back pocket, RCA is still inquisitive. Spotted along the eastern seaboard are eight of its laboratories, where 600 engineers try to improve radio's present, dope out its future. Equipped to examine everything from a $9 receiver to the most complicated electronic devices, the research units are the best in existence. But the best isn't good enough for RCA. Last week RCA President David Sarnoff announced that the company was preparing to build at Princeton, N. J. "the world's largest radio research laboratories," complete with lecture...
...published in the Southwest, was a Literary Guild selection (1931) and he was called off a panther hunt to quaff Manhattan literary tea. In 1932-33, on a Guggenheim grant, he traveled 2,000 miles on muleback in Mexico, emerged with material for Tongues of the Monte, rich legendary dope on the lost Tayopa Mine (Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver). For The Longhorns he searched through thousands of pamphlets, talked to hundreds of oldtimers. Said an old trail driver of Frank Dobie: "He speaks our language-and he's got the right tune as well as the right words...