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...Chicago's Cubs again lean heavily on the strong pitching arm of Claude Passeau and the big bat of home-run specialist Bill ("Swish") Nicholson...
...Fight. Lean-jawed, contentious Aubrey Williams, social-worker protégé of Harry Hopkins, had been an easy target. Before the Agricultural Committee, the fight was led by Tennessee's knob-nosed, choleric Kenneth McKellar, an old Williams foe, and no holds were barred...
...year-old Georgia flyer who, refusing to believe he was too old for combat, became an ace under General Chennault (Raymond Massey), was forced to land in enemy territory after helping to bomb Hong Kong, and survived to teach Army flyers what he had learned during the lean, heroic days of air warfare in China...
...last week, in the first step toward the No. 1 Rio Farms objective, five of the now 200 tenants had applications approved for ownership of the land they had farmed under lease. Said lean, sun-bleached Tenant Nicholas Renfro, who netted $3,000 last year and plans to buy 80 acres: "I was just a one-mule-team farmer, like a thousand other guys. Now I got my own tractor and equipment, and I'm aimin' to own my own home and land. It's a wonderful thing...
...MOMENT OF TIME - Sydney R. Mc Lean-Putnam ($2.50). Glimpsed tell ingly at intervals of ten years as she grows from childhood in 1775 to old age, Submit Ellery's life reveals her quiet strength. An effective, restrained and ingenious first novel...