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...bank kept on growing until 1953, when economy-minded Treasury Secretary George Humphrey tried to liquidate it in order to get the Government out of the banking business. After 1954 loan disbursements dropped rapidly. By 1956 Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart had managed to convince Secretary Humphrey that Ex-Im's soundness and buy-U.S. policy helped U.S. industry without being a giveaway, and disbursements began a new climb...
...Third Baseman Andy Carey to complete the 16th in a series of deals between the two clubs in the past five years, involving 61 players. Sent to the Athletics by the Yankees in 1956, Cerv celebrated his return by going three-for-five in his opening game, hitting a homer in his second, but still could not prevent two Yankee losses to the Chicago White...
Frontiers of Faith (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Sir Cedric Hardwicke illustrates "The Grandeur and Misery of Man" with readings from Homer, the Bible, Shakespeare, Keats, Dylan Thomas...
Last week the season rose to a climax as Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico and Venezuela met in Panama in a round-robin fight for the twelfth annual Caribbean championship. When Panama's Elias Osorio hit a two-run homer over the wall to beat Venezuela in the bottom of the ninth, he was waylaid by a delirious mob on the third-base line. Frantic hands clutched his sleeve, pounded his back, hoisted him high and then dropped him. Waiting at home plate, Umpire Pat Orr fumed as he fought to keep his feet in the crush. "Be patient...
...Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Graves. The bad boy of the classicists brilliantly carries out an engaging idea: that the Iliad was intended to be a satire of gods, kings and heroes...