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...most deserving young man, Mr. Larry Jaster of St. Louis, "set a major league record" by shutting out the Los Angeles Dodgers five times in a row. Seems to me you should do a little research when you make such statements. He only tied the record set by Grover Cleveland Alexander against the Cincinnati Reds in 1916. I believe Larry is a left-hander-Alex was, of course, a righthanded, sidearm pitcher...
...GROVER CLEVELAND ALEXANDER...
...inconvenience, Morse erected an 8-ft.-high chain-link fence around the tree, hired two gatekeepers and began charging visitors 50? admission to touch the magic acacia and carry its liquid away in pop bottles. His curiosity piqued by the spreading excitement over the acacia, Tree Surgeon Grover Smith arrived from nearby Harlingen, and somehow climbed the tree without Morse's knowledge. His deflating conclusion, which was printed in the local press: insects had bored "into a little old bitty knothole and the tree just started bleeding." It was sap, not water, flowing out of the tree, Smith insisted...
...Bill" that would open the mails to birth control information and devices. Victory came by a more roundabout route. She had ordered a new Japanese pessary sent to an associate, Dr. Hannah Stone, and it was seized by U.S. Customs. In U.S. v. One Package, U.S. District Court Judge Grover Moscowitz dismissed the Government's suit, ordered the package delivered. When, in 1937, Attorney General Homer Cummings announced that the Government would not carry the case to the Supreme Court, the mails were opened for good, although it was not until last year that Connecticut became the last state...
...wave of protest began when Edmund S. Barry, principal of 99 percent white Grover Cleveland Junior High warned parents that 600 white students in his district would be shifted to predominantly Negro schools by the new plan...