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Homer Peabody '41 is in charge of the tricks and will direct operations from a position just above the players' dugout...
...them. Everywhere they went, they were heckled. The "foreign press" (any writer outside Cleveland) dubbed them "Cry Babies." Rival teams sent them rubber panties, rattles, perambulators. When they went to bat, they were "boohooed" from their opponents' bench. Once they found a baby's bottle in their dugout...
...last week Lin Yutang, tired from two nights in & out of dugouts, heard an alarm and again made his way to one of the vast caverns cut into the sides of Chungking's red-and-grey sandstone mountain. There he sat hunched up from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. At one point two bombs landed directly above the dugout's 70-foot rock roof, three in front of its plugged entrance. The place shook for 15 seconds, and concussion-wind rushed through it, blacking out the oil lamps...
...passenger train, narrow-gauge freight, shaky Chevrolet, pack train and Indian dugout, Explorer Blotner went into the interior in 1931, came out with information on weather, topography, disposition of the natives. Three years later, on an aerial survey of the projected route, his pilot got lost, ran out of gas, made a forced landing in the wilderness. Airman Blotner might still be there if a Brazilian geographic expedition hadn't happened along, lent him some gas which got his ship to Belem...
...this week, east-coast sea traffic survived, but repeated poundings set afire a cluster of grain elevators at Southampton, and King George and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had narrow escapes while visiting troops in the southeast defense zone. An inn near the dugout into which Mr. Churchill ducked was cut in two. The proprietor simply moved his public dartboard to an outer wall and served ale to patrons outside through a hole in the masonry...