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...Largest and most publicized of the"Se institutions is Ray Doan's Baseball School, transplanted this year from Hot Springs, Ark. to Jackson, Miss. Ray Doan, a forthright promoter, once managed the bearded House of David baseball team. He specializes in big-name "professors" (this year he has engaged Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, Burleigh Grimes, Gabby Street), lures some 300 pupils every spring thereby. In six years 500 Doan graduates have found jobs in organized baseball-mostly in Class D leagues where they might have landed the same job by going directly to the club for a tryout...
Soon after death came to Pius XI last week, the great eleven-ton Campanone, largest of St. Peter's bells, was set to its deep, sad tolling. This week, as a triple coffin was lowered to the crypt of St. Peter's, not only the Campanone and the bells of Rome's mourning churches but a tolling from hundreds of cathedrals, from thousands of parish churches the world over, sounded the grief of the widowed Church and millions of her children over the loss of the kindly little man whom, they devoutly and humbly believed, the workings...
Records may fall at the final 1940 Olympic Ski try-outs at Berlin, New Hampshire, on February 24 and 25. Several unofficial marks were set at earlier trials on the Berlin jump, largest man-made one in the world...
Besides his writing, he had his own band while a student at Shaker Heights High School in Cleveland. When he gave a talk on jazz in the Union last term under the auspices of the American Civilization Group it was attended by the largest crowd of the series...
During Mr. Briggs' years at Harvard the library has grown from 400,000 volumes to the largest university library in the world...