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Trailing the league-leading Dodgers by 2½ games, the Cards moved into Brooklyn for a four-game series. In the first inning of the first game, Brooklyn Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe tempted Outfielder Stan Musial with a slow, change-of-pace curve; Musial eyed it carefully and whaled the ball over the right-field fence. In his box, the Dodgers' Branch Rickey generously remarked: "That Musial is a great hitter." The wallop was just a foretaste of what was going to happen to Brooklyn. The Cards won that game, 3-1, won the second game...
Speakers listed in the Forum's prospectus are Lee Pressman, Senator Burton Hickenlooper, Roland Young, Thomas Finletter, Senator Edwin Johnson, FTC Chairman Judge Elwin Davis, Thurman Arnold, and others including Harvard Professors Sumner Slichter, Alvin Hansen, Roscoe Pound, Arthur N. Holcombe, Edward S. Mason, and C. Crane Brinton...
British scientists had brought this storm upon themselves by insisting that something be done and done soon about internationalizing The Bomb. A prominent spokesman for them had been Physicist Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant. Others, following Oliphant's lead, had secretly circulated a round robin declaring that they would rebel against enforced secrecy if the Government ignored them, Official Secrets...
...hnauness of the pfifltriggi turned out to be the least of Elwin Ransom's worries when he arrived on Mars in a space machine...
...well-worn device is intended to provide readers with an astronomically detached view of life on earth. The result is sub-Wellsian fantasy, tinted with irony and as pitted with morality as Pilgrim's Progress. The findings are not flattering to earthworms, some of whom may feel that Elwin Ransom might have got just as far without going such a distance...