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...PHILADELPHIA A'S: Connie Mack's finest team won 107 games behind the well-muscled Jimmie Foxx and Al Simmons, with an assist from catcher Mickey Cochrane. The rest of the offense was a collection of relative mediocrities, and beyond the great Lefty Grove (31-4), the pitching staff was just better than average...
...kill, they dropped in on the small upstairs gallery of Thomas Gibson, a private dealer in Old Bond Street. And there, on an easel, was a painting that had just come in on consignment a few hours before: Degas's pastel Dancer Taking a Bow, 1887, one of the finest of his ballet scenes, which had been in one of the collections of the Rothschild family for the past 80 years and had not been exhibited publicly in a half-century. "It just shone," Wynn recalls. "It knocked me flat. I knew I had to have it. And if Bill...
Next semester, if you decide to take a class featuring some of the finest novels written in the 20th century, you may find yourself selecting from a whole new breed of pricey paperbacks. Random House has just started publishing quality paperback versions of selections from its list of the 100 best novels written since the turn of the century, a list that has provoked widespread criticism, debate and, among the more media-savvy, a halfhearted shrug of the shoulders at the lengths to which some publishers will go to drum up a little business...
...lobby, she was shocked to find the hotel manager-naked, bound and gagged. At first, she thought that the manager was involved in a bizarre sexual advance so she did not aid the manager. Instead, she called the police. His embarrassment was ended only after Boston's finest charged into the building...
Having made his purchase, the alleged violator--almost always a male according to city officials--will exit the store and find one of Cambridge's finest waiting for him. Once a purchase has been made, officers have the right to ask the buyer...