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...Mexican league of sorts has limped along, largely on unofficial betting, for 21 years. A once great U.S. star, Rogers Hornsby, took a fling at it in 1944. quit after he had broken up a game with a grand-slam homer. (The club owner told him he shouldn't have done that, because it would hurt the next day's attendance.) By such showmanship the brothers Pasquel hope to take Mexico's mind off bullfighting. They talk big of plans to lure 30 or 40 U.S. big-leaguers south next year, to increase their three-games...
...years she was the gaudy consort of a river gambler and a barkeep, helped make them both multimillionaires. But for the last 13 years, having outlived them and their time, she has found life dull. Last week the aging hussy of Champa Street took a tardy fling at respectability, snatched herself a new kind...
Most rankling of all is the war record of the Dutch army in Java. Built into a formidable myth by misleading propaganda, it yielded quickly to the Japanese. Now Indonesian papers fling taunting jibes like: "We pitied the Dutch when the victorious Jap hordes sent Dutch soldiers fearfully fleeing in sarongs and pajamas or underwear, hurriedly throwing their equipment away...
...theatrical weekly Billboard reported that dentists gathered at their annual convention in Manhattan chose, for a collective theatrical fling, Deep Are the Roots...
...Demobbed" from his father's old regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, and unseated from Parliament at the last election, Randolph at 34 was still regarded by his friends as "promising." His latest fling was in an old Churchillian field: journalism. United Feature Syndicate had signed him to a one-year contract, sold his column to 80 papers in the U.S. and abroad, told him Europe was his beat. His first col umns were windy pieces about Eire, and under anyone else's name would hardly have been printed. When they appeared, Randolph was in Moscow...