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...almost too easily. He deals with a delinquent girl (Jean Heather) so silkily that before long she is married. He handles the jail-fodder kids of the street so astutely that before long they are singing Mozart's Ave Verum and liking it. He even teaches old Father Fitzgibbon how to play golf. He also writes songs which, with the help of an old friend who sings in opera (Metropolitan Diva Risé Stevens), he sells so effectively that the parish, despite a disastrous fire, rises clear of all financial problems. And just before he leaves St. Dominic...
...winning runs came as a result of singles by Sherman Clark and Brendon Reilly, walks to Sorgi and Heath, and an infield error on Fitzgibbon's ground ball...
...eighth, to even things at five all. '46'er Bill Fitz's hitting and clever base-running featured the all-important rally. Borrowing a leaf from sucedster Pete Reiser's book, after singling he scurried to second on a foul out to the catcher, went to third on Fitzgibbon's infield hit, and raced home ahead of the throw-in when Gallagher hit a high pop-up to deep short-stop...
...eight-page, tabloid-size picture paper, the World is at present the only offset daily in the U. S. With a small bi-weekly as his sole competitor, Editor Fitzgibbon at the end of his first month had a paid circulation of 1,300, plenty of advertising. Using a linotype to set up his copy, he could compete with many a metropolitan newspaper in neatness and variety of makeup. When the World wanted to print an election extra with a special head, Fitzgibbon went around the corner to a department store, made his paste-up head with a stencil, printed...
From U. S. publishers great and small, Editor Fitzgibbon last week had received some 500 letters asking him how offset worked. His answer: operating costs with linotype and offset presses (laboriously sheet-fed) are not more than 10% lower. But initial costs are cut too, may bring the total saving to 15%. So pleased with offset is James Fitzgibbon that he plans to look around for some more small towns without newspapers, try to develop a chain of offset dailies...