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...drove in 873 runs and scored 771 runs himself (including 145 homers). Last year, when Leo ("Lippy") Durocher left the Cardinals to become manager of the Dodgers, he yearned to take along Ducky, his longtime roommate and protege. Dodger President Larry MacPhail, a red-headed go-getter, wanted Medwick...
With the return of its greatest point-getter, Doug Pirnie, to the lineup in addition to Tom Goethal's coming into form again, Coach Bill Neufeld's Yardling tracksters are fast rounding into shape for their annual tussle with Yale this Saturday in the stadium...
Star point-getter Doug Pirnie heads a long list of Freshmen on the injury list with a strained leg muscle which prevented him from all events except the discus last Saturday. Don Forte, Ray Guild, and Tom Goethals, all dependable dash men, are also on the shelf...
...prove his own worth. A member of one of the Oxford University debating teams, he still was to win his spurs in the hard school of the House of Commons. He quickly became known as a quiet plugger rather than a brilliant go-getter. He looked more like an office boy than a Cabinet member. His chief virtues were patience and calm...
...Franklin Roosevelt, "Honest Vic" has been for much of his 40-year official life the best all-around Democratic vote-getter. A ball of fire on the stump, old-timer Donahey has not once opened his jaws oratorically in the Senate since he was sworn in. A great believer in laissez-faire, a fanatic devotee of fishing in times of legislative crisis, "Honest Vic" thinks everybody talks too much. If Senators were graded like schoolboys, he would rate: diligence, fair; deportment, awful; attendance, terrible; common sense...