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...Reason. Kicking Owner Cox out of baseball was the most drastic step aging (77) Kenesaw Mountain Landis had had to take in his 23 years as autocrat of baseball. He declared Cox "permanently ineligible" to hold any office in the major or minor leagues. The lank-haired, obtrusively autocratic old Federal Judge had been put in his job to squash just that kind of thing. Gambling had nearly ruined baseball when the Chicago White ("Black") Sox threw the 1919 World Series for gamblers' bribes: it was a jarring blow to the public's confidence in baseball...
...Washington, Secretary Morgenthau's Congressman, lank Hamilton Fish, lamented the sale, presumed that his constituent was selling because of the serious corn shortage in the East. In the Senate North Dakota's William Langer cried "If all dairy farmers follow Morgenthau's example there will not be any more milk." But in their barns, tired, aging U.S. dairymen dourly agreed that the Morgenthau sale was shrewdly timed.* They, too, are selling milk cows. Their reasons...
Ecuador Dynamo Segura had swept every tournament this summer; his opponent, 22-year-old Coast Guardsman Kramer, former Men's Doubles titleholder, not only had not seen a grass court all year but had suddenly developed a case of what Ellsworth Vines called "ptomaine nerves" (nervous stomach). Lank, lackadaisical Jack Kramer slouched around the court; pigeontoed, muttering, gesticulating Segura crouched like a predatory biped, gave everything Kramer hit a run for its money. Kramer, rejecting the tempo agitato, dropped the first set 2-6, suddenly found the touch and raced through the next three sets...
...Lank, tonsured Charlie ("Show me a shot I can't make") Peterson has spent 51 of his 64 years learning, loving, mastering the art of billiards, and bringing the masse to the masses. Now he is bringing it to the services...
...post in U.S. Protestantism, the Federal Council (see above) last week picked a lank, unassuming Virginian. Episcopal Bishop Henry St. George Tucker's election was a vote for Protestant harmony. "It is hard to believe," says one of his admirers, "that any human being can actually be as wise as the Bishop sometimes looks when debate is heated around...