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Last week, the Phillies beat out 12 other big-league clubs in a scramble to sign up another whiz kid. In Thomaston, Ga., where 19-year-old strike-out artist Hugh Radcliffe (TIME, May 10) was pitching his last high-school game, a Philadelphia scout shelled out $40,000 to persuade Radcliffe to become a Philly...
...Stonewall, Ga., milkman named H. T. Bradberry found a U.S. mail pouch containing $239,000 in currency lying beside the Atlanta & West Point Railroad tracks. He turned it over to postal authorities, who grabbed the sack, subjected him to gimlet-eyed questioning, finally told him he was free to leave-but did not utter one word of thanks...
...Near Augusta, Ga., A.T. & T. was closing the last gap between the East Coast network and the great coaxial cable joining Los Angeles with Miami. But about 400 special television boosters will have to be built before New Yorkers can see Hollywood stars, or Californians can see a World Series. A Chicago-to-Denver-to-San Francisco system of radio relay towers may provide a shortcut. Without cables or relays, television's world would stretch little farther than the local horizon...
Separatlonists. In Albany, Ga., thieves robbed Church Treasurer J. G. Wright of $251 in church funds and $200 of his own, a week later returned...
Radcliffe, who pitches for the Robert E. Lee Institute in Thomaston, Ga., has a very fast ball, a sharp curve, and an unruffled disposition. He is also cleanup man in the batting order, and is currently hitting...