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Summer, 1945, promised to be no different. Most summer shows will feature second-drawer favorites, supporting play ers going solo (like Harry James for Danny Kaye, Ray Noble for Sinatra) or seasoned, borrowed troupers like Herbert Marshall, Ray Bolger, Roland Young...
Village homes and farmhouses were stuffed with comforts, even luxuries. Near Frankfurt, one correspondent wonderingly noted the furnishings-paintings, silver and glassware, rich linens-then dipped into a bedroom closet: "I counted 87 dresses, three pairs of boots, 17 pairs of shoes. One whole drawer was jammed with tightly packed, unworn silk stockings...
...rest are manpower-hungry and struggling to shake off a second division complex. Yawkey's Red Sox have Batsmen Bob (.324) Johnson and Ervin (.315) Fox, little else. The loss of Third-Sacker Ken Keltner leaves Cleveland with but one top-drawer infielder, Shortstop-Manager Lou Boudreau. Dynamic Jimmy Dykes, Chicago White Sox manager, has high hopes that Rookie-Infielder Bill Nagel, a fence-buster from Milwaukee can fill the shoes of Hal Trosky. Weak behind the plate, strong on Cubans again. Washington is minus its only .300 hitter, Stan Spence. Philadelphia's Athletics hoped ex-Milwaukee Outfielder...
...sumptuous Embassy in Mexico City, with its big autographed picture of Stalin, was the most crowded social center in the Mexican capital. In no time, he had won friends for Russia all over Latin America. Now & again a suspicious voice would ask why Russia had sent such a top-drawer diplomat to Mexico City. There were rumors of Russian undercover activity. But Ambassador Oumansky's conduct was always scrupulously correct...
Last week the remains of Bvron Keating-piles of news clips-were decently interred in Keating's "office," the middle drawer of Hill's desk. Hill and Eckels have only one regret: "We had a corker planned. We were going to phony up a foundation-garment account for Byron Keating. We were going to have the phony company pick a Miss Uplift from clerks behind brassiere counters...