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...might have gone into the record books as one of those special days-but the homer-hitters kept right on connecting. After letting his record string of home runs in successive games run out at eight, the Pirates' First Baseman Dale Long came back four days later and banged out his 15th of the season. The Yankees' Centerfielder Mickey Mantle, his batting average running well above .400, hit his 19th and 20th - and two days later the Yanks were punished in kind by a grand-slam belt off the bat of Detroit's Leftfielder Bob Kennedy...
...loud-and with fewer qualifications than usual-that this may be the year that tops Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60 home runs, and Mickey might be the lad to do it. Can he beat the Babe? This is certainly a season for shattering sports records, and homer-happy club owners have done their bit by pulling in their outfield fences. With such help and such a hot start (at week's end nine games ahead of Ruth's 1927 pace), Mantle looks like the man to cross the 60-homer barrier and set the sentimentalists...
...Horace Mansfield Homer, 52, became board chairman of United Aircraft Corp., succeeding the late Frederick B. Rentschler, who founded the company (TIME, May 7). In as president went William P. Gwinn, 48, who has been general manager of United's Pratt & Whitney Aircraft division since 1943. "Jack" Homer, who will continue as chief executive officer, joined United in 1926 with an engineering degree from Yale, became Pratt & Whitney general manager in 1940. Horner directed the huge World War II expansion that made the company the biggest U.S. maker of piston engines for aircraft. Before becoming president of the parent...
...Hathaway was the big gun for the JV's as he hit safely three times, including a two-run homer. Don Slotkin also added two hits to the Crimson's attack...
Significantly, the Yale exhibit also shows that U.S. collectors, long accustomed to taking their cue from abroad, have not neglected the home front. Nearly half the exhibitors had American paintings on show. Among them: such recognized American masters as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and Albert Ryder, and a sampling of the turn-of-the-century "Ash Can" realists...