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Though U.S. newspapers probably give more space to baseball than to any other sport, little of it goes to Josh Gibson, the Homestead Grays or Negro baseball in general. Yet colored ball could have been good copy at any time since 1885, when the first professional Negro nine was made up of waiters from Long Island's tony Argyle Hotel. To be acceptable as opponents for local semi-pros, they posed as Cubans, babbled gibberish on the field, called themselves the Cuban Giants...
...Weber & Fields reunion, when Lillian was 51 and over 170 lb., she was asked to do it again. As she broke, monumentally, into Come Down, My Evenin' Star, an audience including Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst, Diamond Jim Brady, Condé Nast and Charles Dana Gibson blubbered frankly over its boiled shirts...
Because the King was not there, it was Queen Elizabeth, in a plain grey dress prettied with orchids, who from the dais of Buckingham Palace's Grand Hall be stowed decorations on Empire heroes-first among them R.A.F. Wing Commander Guy Gibson, leader of dam-destroying planes over Germany. Possessor of letters patent making her one of five Councilors of State during the King's Mediterranean tour, the Queen said to Gibson: "The King has asked me to say how sorry he is not to be able to give the Victoria Cross to you personally...
...Peace-and After. Right now, Hoover & Gibson urge, some of the leading United Nations should be selected as "Trustees of Peace," who would, as soon as fighting ends, maintain world order, restore international law and set up the permanent "world institution...
...Hoover & Mr. Gibson do not attempt the presently impossible job of defining their world institution in concrete terms, but they do point out in detail why they believe the League of Nations failed. Presumably, the world institution would be something like the League of Nations-with Hoover & Gibson improvements...