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...harvested his grapes at Villeneuve-Loubet on the Côte d'Azur. A Fight For Freedom audience of 17,000 cheered when Wendell L Willkie and William S. Knudsen denounced Naziism at Madison Square Garden, Eddie Cantor tripped over his hoopskirts, Swingstress Ella Logan swung Tipperary, Larry MacPhail bussed her, and Bill Robinson tap-danced in a gold-&-ermine suit on "Hitler's coffin." In Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt sent over a plate of flapjacks and a can of maple syrup to Lord Beaverbrook. - Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, Tsuguno-Miya, 7, paddled peacefully...
...Service (WATS), began her anti-aircraft training. Cinemactor David Niven was on leave from his British regiment to make a picture with Leslie Howard about Reginald Joseph Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire. New recruits in the U.S. Naval Reserve : Wendell Willkie's son, Philip, and Dodger Boss Lorry MacPhail's son, William. Cleveland discovered that Pitcher Bob Feller, 22, who had passed his physical examination for the draft, had been taking flying lessons for three weeks. Vichy announced that the centennial of World War I Premier Georges Clemenceau's birth (Sept. 28, 1841) would be ignored. Same...
Composer Bennett began his symphony with conventional jubilant trumpetings. That was "The Dodgers Win." "The Dodgers Lose" was a dirge, almost Oriental in its luxurious grief. The scherzo of the symphony opened with plaintive bassoon bleats: President MacPhail offering Cleveland the Brooklyn Bridge and Prospect Park in trade for Pitcher Bob Feller. Thudding minor chords were Cleveland's repeated "No." The symphony ended with "Red" Barber himself, the Dodgers' own radio announcer, rattling off an account of a ninth-inning rally against the Giants, a home run, and victory...
...music inspired by a baseball team. Lean, drawly Composer Robert Russell Bennett, who in his youth was a semi-pro ballplayer, played a new Symphony in D for the Dodgers on his WOR-Mutual program, Russell Bennett's Notebook. To the Dodgers and their music-loving President Larry MacPhail, the symphony was a great comfort. Although they were still out in front in the National League, they had just lost a game in Pittsburgh, which ended a seven-game winning streak...
...Brooklyn Dodger fans, believing reports from spring training, are all set for their first pennant in 21 years. So, when Boss Larry MacPhail's fabulous collection of stars was beaten by the New York Giants, 6-to-4, in the opening game, impatient Brooklynites hastily dubbed them Larry MacPhailures...