Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile in Washington dissatisfaction with the posters program led to coordination of all Government posters under Elmer Davis' Office of War Information. Heading a new Graphics Division is Francis E. ("Hank") Brennan, former Art editor of FORTUNE. Last week Poster-man Brennan, busy formulating his plans, was definite on one main point. Said he: "Thus far, the Government has fumbled the ball...
...Sergeant Hank Greenberg was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces at Miami Beach...
...Buffalo, was the first ever played in the minor International League. Contestants were its "northern" (Montreal, Toronto, Rochester, Buffalo) and "southern" (Newark, Jersey City, Syracuse, Baltimore) teams. There, too, the game was clinched in the first inning. Led by Newark's George Stirnweiss and Baltimore's Hank Edwards, the southerners pounded four northern pitchers for eleven hits...
Except for this wartime note, broadcast by big-league clubs, the 1942 baseball season opened this week much as usual. Some headliners were missing-notably Detroit's Hank Greenberg, Cleveland's Bob Feller, Washington's Cecil Travis, Philadelphia's Sam Chapman-and many another great ballplayer will follow them to war before the season ends. But draft or no draft, U.S. baseball fans were down with their perennial spring fever: trying to dope out how 16 big-league teams will finish in far-off October...
...replace him, Manager Joe McCarthy has two candidates: Oldtimer Buddy Hassett (recently purchased from the poor Boston Braves) and a promising rookie named Eddie Levy. Among a half-dozen other Yankee farmhands considered to have enough savvy for the Big Team this year are Pitchers Johnny Lindell and Hank Borowy, who between them won 44 games for the Newark Bears last season...