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...National League, the third-place Milwaukee Braves finished far ahead of the pack in the profitable statistics of home-town attendance: a record total of more than 2,000,000. Just for fun, the Braves set another major-league record (minor variety): they replayed the last inning of a protested game with the Cincinnati Redlegs, played a full nine with the St. Louis Cards, and won both times...
...ball is caught. Long run-backs, as a result, are few and far between. Hocus-Pocus. Despite the warm (70°) Toronto weather, last week's game was a satisfactory curtain raiser for the Canadian football season. Both teams cut loose with some of the spectacular football that home-town fans take for granted. One interception resulted in a triple lateral: Al Pfeifer brought the shirtsleeved crowd to its feet with a wild, diving catch of a 31-yd. scoring pass. There was enough hocus-pocus in each backfield to catch U.S. camera crews continually off guard. Often they...
Moonlight flooded the courthouse square at Laurel, Miss, one night last week as a big, enthusiastic crowd gathered to hear a home-town boy, Lieut. Governor Carroll Gartin. 41, open his campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination. The traditional statue of a Confederate soldier and one of a bowed, weeping woman (the crushed South) overlooked the scene. Gartin, handsome and well-bred, is generally considered the most promising politician to arise in the state for many years...
...Home-town Decision. Moving in to the attack. Hurley caught the home-town sportswriters off guard. "Cockell," he told them, "could beat Rocky Marciano on the best day Rocky ever knew. Marciano can't box. He's just a big, crude swinger. Who has Marciano beaten anyway...
...Germany. Her gentle doctor father, informed on by a tenant in his own house, is carted off to a concentration camp, and his ashes are subsequently returned in a cigar box. Ernst charms away such horrors with a symbol, a linden tree flowering affirmatively amid the ruins of his home-town square. Filled with a deep if obscure faith in the future, he marries Elisabeth and goes back to war, only to be killed by some innocent but suspicious Russian peasant prisoners when he frees them. For Ernst, and for the reader, all is finally quiet on the Eastern Front...