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There is the honest, talented writer who has never published a serious book, but priggishly signs his detective stories with a nom de plume. He winds up cadging drinks, clowning out parody first lines of poems, and warming up bedroom scenes in a hack-written best-seller about two U.S. families who take part in every war since the Revolution. ("After all, I was the person who suggested the whole idea of having Nancy Gaylord be the mother of Walt Whitman's illegitimate child-it's terrific. He meets her at the Mardi Gras and lays...
Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...
...with smoke you couldn't see across it.") We hadn't the heart to throw them out on the street, so we bought most of them off for ten pesos. Then we tried turning off the water, but "the plumber had hardly left when our resourceful guests hack-sawed through the main." (At last report TIME-in-Manila still housed some fifty Filipinos. One is a one-legged tailor who has established his shop right inside the front door; another is an elderly gentleman whose sole possessions seem to be twelve 300-pound anchors...
Stirnweiss, N. Y. .309 Cavarretta, Chicago .355 Cuccinello, Chicago .308 Holmes, Boston .352 Dickshot, Chicago .303 Rosen, Brooklyn .325 Estalella, Phila. .297 Kurowski, St. Louis .323 Moses, Chicago .295 Hack, Chicago...
Stars & Averages. When Bill ("Swish") Nicholson, last year's home run and R.B.I. champion, began swishing air almost exclusively this year, Jolly Cholly left him strictly alone. Nicholson still has plenty of threat value, and four other Cubs-Hack, Johnson, Cavarretta, Pafko-have better than .300 averages. (Cavarretta's .363 mates him the present runner-up to Boston's Tommy Holmes for batting honors...