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...matter how the rest of the series went, one man who came out ahead was Giant Manager Alvin Dark. A teetotaling, tithing Louisianan who plays golf in the 70s, onetime Shortstop Dark, 39, sparked the Boston Braves to a pennant in 1948, did the same for the Giants in 1954, when he teamed with the mercurial Eddie Stanky to give Coogan's Bluff the best double-play combination in the National League. A pennant winner in his sophomore year as Giant manager, Dark runs the club with the solicitude of a tenderhearted drill sergeant. He never swears...
...Appointment of the week: Lieut. General Blackshear Morrison Bryan Jr., 54, to succeed Major General Frederick A. Irving in September as the 43rd superintendent of West Point. A strapping Louisianan, "Babe" Bryan is a West Pointer (class of '22, and twice an Army football coach) was the tough but fair assistant provost marshall in charge of all P.W. camps in the U.S. during World...
Down in Bay Minette, somnolent county seat on Alabama's Gulf coast, is a one-man hospital of a kind that few Americans realize still exists. His name is Dr. Leonce Dolhonde Newman. Dr. Newman is a Louisianan, who first went to Bay Minette four years ago. Since then he has delivered 527 babies (many under primitive conditions) without a single mother's fatality. Grateful Bay Minettens sometimes call Dr. Newman "Dr. Kildare...
...Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (Ruston, La.) Senior Ann Holstead wrote an essay for her English class. Said Sophomore Varnelle Plastow: "It smells." Thereupon Miss Holstead, a Louisianan, challenged Miss Plastow, a Long Islander, to a duel. Time: the morning after Miss Holstead's graduation. Place: behind the stadium. Distance: ten paces. Weapons: chocolate pies. Result: Miss Plastow got plastered...
That Louisiana State University really belongs to Huey Long no sensible Louisianan doubts for one moment. As Governor and as Senator, the "Kingfish" has made it his biggest, most expensive plaything. In small part his interest is due to pride in the educational and athletic advantages of his Kingdom. In large part it is due to his personal feud with Tulane University...