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...first 1945 trip to the plate, Bill Nicholson of the Chicago Cubs planted a fat pitch over the 368-ft. marker in right center field. With 33 home runs and 122 runs-batted-in, he was the game's leading slugger last year, and he had every intention of repeating...
That announcement in this column last week about the coming marriage of Gene Speer caused a bit of embarrassment to the gentleman. We can look for a sharp dropping off of Gene's marks. It seems that his "friendless," Cora, the marker, also reads the News...
...connections. In the new system, an operator in the town where the call originates calls the number by dialing or punching keys on a new kind of switchboard. Instead of plugs, this has a numbered keyboard like an adding machine. The message goes to the mechanical brain, called a "marker," which hunts out an available trunk line, tests a path to the destination and electrically sets up all connections-all within one second. If all lines are busy, overflow calls are stacked up in a special circuit and put through in order of priority as soon as lines are free...
...Hanna illustrates pioneer house construction by telling the story of Ancestor Washington ("Wash") Hanna's log cabin in Waterloo, Iowa. He skips his chance, however, to draw from the story of his distant kinsman, "President-Marker" Marcus Alonso ("Mark") Hanna (groceries, coal & iron, traction, banking...
...Engineers showed little power as Mal Moley, losing only one game, took their number one man in two short sets. Captain Don Daniels won two out of three sets to hoist another marker for the Crimson netters. Both Jack Lynch and Charlie Greenspan were forced into three sets to win. Tom Baker completed the singles sweep by an 8-6, 6-0 triumph...