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Evers Has a Chance. Not even the great Joe Di Maggio, after three G.I. years, was taking any chances. Hollow-cheeked, 31, and still nursing ulcers, Di Mag stepped to bat one day last week, swung as if the final game of the World Series depended on it, clouted one homer, one double, and two singles in four times up. Ex-Marine Ted Williams, 27, once content to be baseball's best batsman, was now working at his fielding, too. Brooklyn's Dixie Walker, the pride of Flatbush, was no cinch to be a regular...
Truckline Cafe wholly muffed a chance to give dramatic, or even melodramatic force to a timely theme. In its casual moments it was flaccid, in its crucial ones unreal. Playwright Anderson's small army of bit parts had an effect of shambling vaudeville. His main story became a hollow study of two people speaking high-busted clichés. Too often, as in the past, he slubbed words into what was neither poetic language nor human speech...
...anxious to meet relatives and friends of Cleveland people. That started a forlorn parade to his room at the Athenee Palace Hotel. In a fortnight he plodded through 675 interviews, and the pattern was the same as in Belgrade and Prague, Nürnberg and Trieste. Wept hollow-cheeked Bertha Lutwak: "Tell my uncle in Cincinnati I am in great need." Attorney Dumitru Ellenes had a sad message for his brother-in-law: "Our family was deported to Austria; only our sister Helen returned alive...
Lesser Poles explained that Russia's understanding with the Polish Provisional Government featured a two-way stretch. Said one, with a laugh as hollow as proud Poland's claim of independence, "When Vishinsky wants to back up, he lets our man go forward...
Next Moves. As such moves got under way this week much of the oratory, demagoguery and threats of the past few months suddenly seemed hollow and beside the point...