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Both U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough and Bethlehem Steel President Arthur B. Homer said that, barring a long strike, the industry's pickup in production would continue; for U.S. Steel and the industry second-quarter production will run between 90% and 95% of capacity. Blough said the rate of production, barring a strike, would drop "somewhat" in the third quarter but "would continue reasonably good because there's been a recovery in the economy that involves an increase in consumption by our customers." And for the fourth quarter production "ought to be better than the third...
Righthander Joe Loeb followed Fuller and finished the game, scattering eight hits, including a long homer by Captain Morse...
Vada Pinson, 20, folded last year after only three weeks with Cincinnati, and was shipped off to Seattle. This season the well-built left-handed batter is hitting a snappy .357. Pinson blames his failure last year on a bases-loaded homer he socked in Pittsburgh in the second game of the season. "I'd never hit one with three on before," he explains, "and I started looking for the chance to do it again. I'm not that way any more. All I'm trying to do this year is get on base...
...Schoolteacher Homer Davis helped found Athens College in 1925, saw the academy for Greek boys slowly increase its first enrollment of 15 students and endowment of $10,000, took over as president in 1930. Last week, from the U.S.-Greek-run school in Athens, which tenaciously survived the dictatorship of John Metaxas (1936-41), successive occupations by Italians, Germans and British, and a painful postwar rebuilding, President Davis, 63, announced his resignation. President-elect, picked by Davis during a trip to the U.S. last month: Charles Marion Rice, 52, director of admissions and head of the English department...
...Williams hit a single, two doubles, two doubles, and the afternoon's only homer, earning three RBI's. Jim Dwinell also sparked the Crimson victory by gaining credit for two RBI's on two singles...