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The Blue Jays became the new, official nickname last week of the Phillies, Philadelphia's National League baseball team. Excitement was rare except for Mrs. John L. Crooks of Philadelphia, the editors of the Johns Hopkins University News-Letter, and the student council.
Mrs. Crooks won the $100 war-bond prize for rechristening the Phillies. Among the 5,698 other suggestions were Daisies and Stinkers. The editors and the student council were indignant. Athletic teams of Johns Hopkins have been known as the Blue Jays for 68 years.
Character. But what really pleased Wall Streeters was the "character" of the market. For more than a year every boomlet has been touched off by heavy buying in $1 to $5 cat-&-dog stocks, fourth-grade foreign bonds, etc. (TIME, March 15, 1943 el seq.). This time the dogs were...
*Other members: Major General Norman Kirk, the Army's Surgeon General, Dr. Alan C. Woods of Johns Hopkins, Dr. Frank H. Lahey of Boston's Lahey Clinic, Dr. Edward A. Strecker of the University of Pennsylvania.
Last week the Senate confirmed their nominations as vice admirals and set a precedent. Mclntire (Johns Hopkins) and Moreell (hard knocks) were the first nonAcademy men ever to reach the rank before retirement.