Word: fielders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Formosa, General Sun commands 300,000 troops, is supported by Nationalist China's air force and navy. In numbers, the force seems imposing, but to TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder last week General Sun frankly conceded that he has a tough job of reorganization ahead of him. Only about half of Sun's troops will take his orders; the others feel themselves bound to generals who reject Sun's authority. Actually, Sun would prefer a smaller, more compact army than he now commands. Unreliable generals have been sacked right & left without regard to traditional face-saving niceties...
From Hong Kong, TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder cabled...
From Macao, Portuguese colony on the China coast, last week TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder cabled...
...opinion of this writer that Addis will be the more valuable Brave. A swift loft fielder with a capable arm, he batted 346 for St. Paul, Dodger farm team of the American Association, and will probably open the season in that sector for the Boston club next year...
...sport section. For the benefit of criminal vermin and ordinary baseball bettors among its readers, the Post was running "Today's Pitching Form" -"official" daily gambling odds on the big-league games. In an editorial, Jimmy Wechsler lamely explained that he was just giving his readers a fielder's choice. Wrote he: "We do not believe the gambling urge would vanish if we left this arithmetical intelligence out of this newspaper . . ." The Post gets its odds from a "reliable" Jersey handbook, presumably a member of one of the "powerful gambling syndicates...