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...anyone should try to block the stock issue in court. At the last minute Eaton bailed out, using as an excuse a suit against K-F to prevent the stock issue on grounds that Kaiser had mishandled K-F funds. It was filed by Philadelphia Lawyer James Masterson, a K-F stockholder who had at one time represented Otis & Co. in court. Kaiser charged that Masterson had filed the suit with a nudge from Cy Eaton himself, who wanted a way out of the underwriting deal when the price of K-F stock began to fall...
There are two leading guys. One, Nathan Detroit (Sam Levene), manages floating crap games and has been affianced for 14 years to a nightclub singer (Vivian Elaine) who longs for "a home with wall paper and bookends." The other guy, Sky Masterson (Robert Alda), will bet on any thing - even that he can persuade a "Save-A-Soul Mission" lassie (Isabel Bigley) to go with him to Havana. While the law is missing out on dice games in sewers and Salvationist missions, love gets Sky firmly into its clutches, and leaves him out to make converts rather than points...
...Boston Red Sox pulled back out to one full game in front with a 6 to 4 night win in Griffith Stadium, Washington. Joe Debson gave up one run in the seventh and stumbled in the eighth as the Senators scored three runs. Walt Masterson preserved the southpaw's fourteenth...
...Boston (Masterson) 6, Detroit...
Washington (Masterson) 6, New York...