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Hindus accused the Minister of Communications, Moslem Leaguer Abdur Rab Nishtar, of carting off to Karachi (temporary capital of Pakistan) every piece of telephone and telegraph equipment he could lay hands on. Calcutta's Hindu press said that Bengal's Prime Minister Huseyn Shabad Suhrawardy, a Moslem, was stripping western Bengal (which will be part of Hindu India) of food, clothing, machinery and hospital equipment...
Bucky Harris had taken a chance on aging George McQuinn, a 37-year-old first-baseman who was as washed-up as any big leaguer could be: the last-place Philadelphia A's had given him an unconditional release. Now, besides being the best fielding first-baseman in baseball, McQuinn was just shy of Joe DiMaggio's .339 batting average. Harris also had a prize asset in Pitcher Frank Shea, a 24-year-old rookie, the cutup of the Yanks' locker room. As of last week, he was the league's top pitcher. His record...
Taking runner-up Bob Reid of Williams and Jim Hasset of the Blue in 4:59.1, Gorman also had the distinction of being the only Ivy Leaguer to finish in the leading slot of the Eastern Circuit except, of course, for the omnipotent Yale...
Power Is the Spur. To bring under control this vast interplay of seemingly irresistible forces and immovable bodies would take more than the fanaticism of Moslem Leaguer Mohamed AH Jinnah, more than Jawaharlal Nehru's eloquent idealism, more, perhaps, than Gandhi's combination of mysticism and manipulation. India needed an organizer. It had one. Gandhi listened to God and passed on his political ideas to Vallabhbhai (rhymes with "I'll have pie") Patel; Patel, after listening to Gandhi, translated those ideas into intensely practical politics...
Among supporters of A.A.: General Robert E. Wood, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., once earnest chairman of America First; Lammot du Pont, chairman of the board of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., arch Republican, anti-New Dealer and Liberty Leaguer...