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...last game, but that fell on Rosh Hashana, and Sandy refuses to pitch on Jewish holidays. Alston also started hulking (6 ft. 7 in., 250 Ibs.) Frank Howard despite the fact that Howard was 0-for-19 in St. Louis this season. So naturally Howard crashed a two-run homer, and Koufax needed only 87 pitches, 66 of them strikes, to spin a nifty four-hitter for a 4-0 shutout, his eleventh of the year...
...enduring miracle is Stan Musial, who at 42 is at last about to retire. His .257 batting average this year is well below his .333 lifetime mark. But last week in eleven trips to the plate, he belted a homer, a double and five singles, added a sacrifice fly and drove in five runs. Better still, the homer came after he sat up all night awaiting the birth of his first grandchild...
...HOMER C. INNIS...
...Pride. Mrs. Kennedy has not yet by any means acquired all the paintings she wants for the White House. The collection includes no John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer or Thomas Eakins. But the paintings already acquired constitute a priceless national heritage...
...Roosevelt's Attorney General Homer Cummings failed to include lynching on the agenda of a national conference on crime. But as the N.A.A.C.P. had already discovered, and as Wilkins soon learned, the overt physical demonstration is not necessarily the most effective way to achieve Negro aims...