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...slugging of moody Phil Weintraub, big-beaked Ernie Lombardi and stumpy Manager Mel Ott (total ages no years), the Giants strutted at the top of the National League ladder with a won-lost count of 21-to-6. The veteran trio reached its peak of efficiency with a homer apiece in a single inning while copping four straight from the Chicago Cubs. Other reasons for cheer in the Giants camp: the unbeatable pitching of Bill Voiselle (8-0), the fine shortstopping of Buddy Kerr, the .347 hitting of Napoleon Reyes...
...postwar period their plans are set. They fell in love with Alaska, bought a homesite in Anchorage and a farm at Homer on the Kenai peninsula. Wild game, including black and grizzly bears, abounds at the farm. A vein of coal lies offshore, and the tide washes up more than enough lumps for heating. The Buckners plan to return there to live. Said the General: "I expect it will take me a solid year to catch up with my hunting and fishing. And I'll be so far away from things I won't be able to exercise...
Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer Prize poet: "War could be beautiful to Homer and Shakespeare because it could be tragic. It has ceased to be that. ... I suspect any war poet now who says he knows what the current calamity means-including the one who says it means nothing...
Some of the dire tales connected with the rest of the boys on the leave are still coming out. Fred Ballantine was seen chasing Bonita Granville through the cars of a UP express with a telegram as an excuse. Herman Homer Cono stuck his head into some place where it didn't belong and he came out with only his bare top to show. B. A. Johnson also ran afoul of a pair of shears in the basement of Gallatin and now stands as living testimony of what the Coop can do to those who don't pay their bills...
...Essex class carriers, now the first line craft of the U.S. fleets. But the tin-hatted, horn-handed men who built the Midway are accustomed to superlatives. They have long bragged that: 1) Newport News is the biggest U.S. shipyard; 2) its sharp-eyed, terrier-like boss, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, 72, is by all odds the best builder of warships in the U.S., if not in the world...