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...against them, blithely offered to make him commissioner of Mexican baseball, at the same salary ($50,006 a year). Brother Jorge, a $6,800 diamond watch on his wrist, offered to devote $20,000,000 of his and his four bachelor brothers'* money to give to Mexico top-drawer baseball. So far, he had spent only about one-fortieth of that on getting U.S. players...
...Protestantism is seething. Recently, charges of too much politicking, too much publicity, too much pressuring of press and radio have been openly leveled at the Church of Rome, not only in the Pope-hating Southern Bible Belt but by top-drawer Protestant clerics and laymen as well...
...does not show its years. Beloit was once called the "Yale of the West" because two of its founders, Stephen Peet and Aaron Chapin, and its first two faculty members were all Yale men. Today it calls itself the oldest college in the Northwest,* and boasts of a top drawer anthropology department, with a $200,000 museum of its own (Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews is a Beloit graduate). One of Beloit's attractions for its students is its ability to hang on to some of the freshwater college atmosphere so dear to the scenarists who wrote Jack Oakie campus...
There were also some noteworthy poet ry roundups: John Crowe Ransom's Selected Poems; W. H. Auden's Collected Poems; David Morton's Poems 1920-1945. Bolts of Melody, though it came pretty much from the bottom of Emily Dickinson's bureau drawer, was indispensable to those interested in one of the rarest and most mysterious of the 19th Century talents...
During its two years' existence, International has produced seven pictures, principally hits (like Casanova Brown and Woman in the Window), which have grossed a high average of $3,250,000 a picture. The two top-drawer Hollywood executives who run International are responsible for this record...