Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muncrief, St. L. Newhouser, Det Leonard, Wash. Gromek, Cleve. Ferriss, Boston Wolff, Wash. Benton, Det. Reynolds, Cleve Sevens, N. Y. Potter, St. L...
PITCHING Lost Won 4 Borowy, Chgo. 11 9 Brecheen, St. L. 15 7 Wyse, Chgo. 22 9 Burkhart, St. L. 18 10 Mungo, N. Y. 14 10 Barrett, St. L. 23 8 Passeau, Chgo. 17 12 Prim, Chgo. 13 9 Gables, Pitts. 11 11 Strincevich,Pitts.16
...Robe. The citizens of the little town of Lüneburg, where the trial was being held, crowded into the grey courtroom. They were seldom moved by what they heard. But they gaped at the drab, precise, and-to them-ridiculously fair ways of foreign justice...
...Negro has ever sung or been invited to sing a principal role in the Metropolitan Opera. Even dark-skinned roles (Otello, Aïda and her father, the Ethiopian King, the African slaves in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine) have always been sung by whites. The staid Met says that its board welcomes "all operatically competent singers." By the Met's definition, those who would not make the grade include: Tenor Roland Hayes, Baritones Paul Robeson and Todd Duncan, Soprano Dorothy Maynor and Contralto Marian Anderson-five of the best voices in the U.S. or any country...
...Meade L. Bricker, 60, to the all-important job of Ford production boss, to replace Ray Rausch, Bennett protege (Rausch was shunted down the ladder to handle "new construction"). An oldtime automan, Bricker first went to work for Ford in 1904, left, then came back again for good in 1914. When World War II began, he was given Ford's toughest pro duction nuts to crack - antiaircraft guns, plane motors - and finally, Willow...