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Appleton, Quonset manager, was hurling mainstay for the Washington Senators until he enlisted in the Navy three years ago. He pitches for Quonset now in addition to managing and will probably start tomorrow...
...Mainstay of Bob Hoffman's interests is the York Bar Bell Co., which still turns out an average of 10,000 bar bells a year, despite restrictive priorities. For past, present and future champions its three foundries provide jobs which do not affect their amateur standing. Clean-jerker Ter-lazzo, for example, is office secretary, Presser Terpak is general manager, and Snatcher Ishikawa earns brawn with his bread by lifting boxes in the shipping department. "Mr. America" is a machinist...
...shapes up now, the team will be led by Jack Lynch of the V-12, who played on last year's Varsity team. Also prominent in Coach Dorson's plans is Gene Sands, another V-12 man, who was the mainstay of last year's Freshman team...
...Long a mainstay of Britain's ultraconservative Royal Academy, Artist Brangwyn is best known in the U.S. for his arch-academic murals in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (R.C.A. Building's lobby). Sir Frank once fell afoul of British womanhood when he was misreported as having criticized the British female figure. What he actually said: "An Eve-I want an Eve. Where is there an Eve symbolic of her sex?" Result: a mass demonstration of shapely women in the streets of his native village (Ditchling, Sussex...
...cents on the dollar, reorganized the company under 77B, and became president at 28. He thought he knew the company's trouble: "You can't live on locomotives, because they never seem to wear out." And there was little demand for a longtime Porter mainstay, a fireless locomotive that ran on stored steam. So he started to make things that did wear out, pressure vessels, evaporators, etc., for the chemical, food and oil industries. But when the war boom hit, he hastily revised his ideas about locomotives...