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...same day that President Truman announced the atomic bomb, McGraw-Hill copyrighted Atomic Power as a magazine title, promptly nailed down the claim with a nine-page mimeographed reprint of some five-year-old atomic talk. With this hedge on the future, McGraw-Hill (Business Week, Aviation, 23 other trade publications) sat back to let the world catch up with...
Next to winning, John J. McGraw liked feuding. During his 30 years as manager, his rough, tough, smart New York Giants won ten National League pennants and seldom finished out of the first-division money. Knockdown, drag-out feuds brightened most of those 30 years...
...McGraw-managed internecine wars packed the parks with cash customers, especially the Polo Grounds when the Brooklyn Dodgers were there. And whenever McGraw led his Christy Mathewsons and Frankie Frischs into Brooklyn, he always made it plain that his club was on a slumming party. By & large, the Giants beat the Dodgers' brains out in those days...
...long after Bill Terry stepped into McGraw's shoes, he made a classic contribution to baseball's best-paying feud. Asked what he thought about the Dodgers, Terry cracked: "The Dodgers? Are they still in the league?" Terry's Giants won three pennants before Brooklyn took the play away from them...
...materials when the Army wanted to spend it on plants, even though there were no materials in sight to keep the plants running. Later, he was drafted into the Army, given a medical discharge seven months later. WThile in the Army hospital, he wrote a book, Mobilizing jor Abundance, (McGraw-Hill-$2) which briefly charted the road from war to peace, much as Nathan must...