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BOSTON--Bullet Bobby Feller and a pair of efficient henchmen, Hal Newhouser and Spud Chandler, were the big three moundsmen who made the Amer- ican Leaguers 3 to 1 favorites for tomorrow's major league All-Star battle at Fenway Park...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 7/9/1946 | See Source »

...calls for a world crusade against "the political regime into which I poured a lifetime of toil and faith." He lives secretly, ducks photographers. Intense, pale-faced, he nervously fiddles with his neat black tie, dismisses unfavorable reviews of his book as the work of charlatans or Communist henchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye to All That | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

Promptly the King's henchmen gathered at the Quirinal, where Umberto had made his last farewells and was packing. The King apparently saw a chance, decided not to go-and royalist leaders whipped up riots in Rome, Naples, Palermo. Alarmed, De Gasperi hastened up the hill and told Umberto to leave at once. In a rage, the scion of Savoy scrapped a conciliatory message to the new republic, substituting a truculent protest. Then he donned a grey suit and porkpie hat, stole away to Ciampino airport and flew to join his family in Portugal. In a few days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pharao Superbus | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Going straight did not appeal to some of the henchmen. They renounced the blood brotherhood pledge and left the gang in discontent. Last week pasty-faced Tomiji Nodera, who, though an accountant, could not stomach the new business ethics, visited the boss, pulled a German Mauser pistol and fired three times. Matsuda slumped dead in his chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Elder Sister | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...chief henchman, faultlessly attired in a morning coat with a red carnation in his lapel, sat approvingly by her side, Mrs. Matsuda proclaimed: "I intend to carry out my husband's ideas though it may entail considerable danger to my person and some resistance from among my henchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Elder Sister | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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