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...Hello Ship," Jake Holman whispers reverently to the U.S.S. San Pablo the first time he reports aboard. His new Navy messmates fondly call their ship the "Sand Pebble," and come equipped with the kind of melting-pot surnames-like Stawski and Shanahan-preferred in U.S. service epics. The ship is on duty in the exotic China of 1925, when warlords pillaged the land and the Western powers protected their trading rights with garrisons and gunboats...
...have a full U.S. crew. Over the years, Chinese coolies in search of "squeeze" have slowly taken over all the work aboard-first the dirtiest jobs which no American sailor wanted to do, finally everything from cooking and laundry to electrical wiring and engine-room repair. By the time Jake Holman arrives, only the guns are reserved for U.S. control...
Since the death in 1960 of longtime President Leon ("Jake") Swirbul, Grumman has been piloted by E. (for Edwin) Clinton Towl, 57, one of the six air-struck men who founded the company in a Long Island garage 33 years ago (among the others: Swirbul and Chairman Leroy Grumman, now 67). Quiet and unassuming, Towl (pronounced Toll) runs less of a one-man show than colorful Jake Swirbul did. When asked to name the big moment in his career, Clint Towl grins. "Tomorrow." With that LEM contract in his pocket, he is undoubtedly right...
...Jake Page...
Infielders Jake Wood and Steve Boros, catcher Dick Brown, and pitcher Don Mossi have fallen far below last year's performances. It remains to be seen if the release of highly-touted rookie pitcher Howle Koplitz from the Army and the return of Kaline can boost Detroit back into the first division where the club belongs...