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...shortened to either "Satchel" or "Foots") to his size 12 shoes. He stands 6 ft. 3½ in. high, weighs 186 lb., and is regarded by colored baseball fans and many white sportswriters as the greatest Negro pitcher of all time, as one of the greatest pitchers of any hue in baseball history...
More serious to the Government than the hue & cry of the opposition were indications that its nominal supporters were fed up with the shilly-shallying war policy hitherto pursued and were about to bolt from the ranks. "What we want is a real War Cabinet with someone at the top who can decide a question. . . . We are meandering and muddling through the war making excuses and boasting," criticized Government Supporter Clement Davies, M. P. In fine English sarcasm he assured Mr. Chamberlain that if Hitler had missed the bus, it was because he "too often takes a taxi...
...PATIENCE OF MAIGRET-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two novelettes by a fantastic Frenchman. Inspector Maigret waits while subordinates make the hue and brass hats foam and fret. And presently the guillotine snicks a cervix or Devil's Island claims another Gaul...
When Haller picked up the crumpled bit of down and feathers, he saw that it was a male, with a yellow throat with raw sienna, a yellowish olive patch on the back, a brownish hue on the flanks, a gull-blue back. He had never seen a warbler quite like it before. Later he bagged a female of the same species, sent both birds to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, which, he knew, had specimens of every known bird in the U.S. But the Smithsonian birdmen could find nothing to match Haller's warblers...
...encased in a small, closet-like cubicle. A maze of dangerous looking wires surrounded him on all sides. Bright lights shone in his eyes until everything had assumed an unpleasant roseate hue. Summoning all his bewildered faculties, he made a gallant effort to concentrate on the mirror in front of him which, under the glare of the strong lights, looked like a blazing inferno. Now Vag knew what it meant to be given the third degree...