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...over the U.S. Magazine publishers were beginning to ration subscriptions in a big way. Examples: Hearst magazines (Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, etc.) now accept no new subscriptions, will take only renewals. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., publishers of 26 trade journals (American Machinist, Aviation, Business Week, Electronics, etc.), will accept only enough new subscriptions to replace subscribers who fail to renew. Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal) still accepts one-year subscriptions by mail, but solicitors take them only for two years or more...
...FFFF. One thing was certain. Bucky Harris might be a loss to the Phillies but any team with do-or-die Fat Freddy Fitzsimmons as manager will not be a pushover. A product of the late John J. McGraw's careful supervision, Fitz has fooled the sportswriters, who kept saying he was through, every year since 1935. Each season-as his big-league total rose to 18-knuckle-baller Fitz rocked into his half-spin, his "butterfly" ball fluttered, cajoled and deceived .300 hitters. An easygoing storehouse of baseball knowledge, Fitz should be an immeasurable asset to the Phillies...
...owned by a hula-hipped Harlem beauty named Effa Manley. Effa received the club as a present from her husband, a onetime Jersey big shot. She appointed herself field manager, until recently directed her players from the dugout in a manner that would have tickled the late great John McGraw...
...keynote of Joseph Guttoveggio's career has been a plodding thoroughness. When, as a child, he became catcher of the 17th Street baseball team, he got McGraw's book on baseball from the library and boned up for weeks on curves and knuckle balls. His formal education ended with his second year in high school, but he began haunting the New York Public Library. A book on hypnotism made him a successful practitioner on friends and neighbors. He ploughed through such subjects as cryptography, graphology, occultism, oriental philosophy, esthetics, acoustics. A book on dietetics converted him temporarily into...
Members of the general dance committee include Lts. (jg) B.E. Urheim, chairman, H.N. Dillard, J.F. Fitzsimmons, C.E. Herlihy, Jr., W.D. Moore, E.B. Nichols, L.P. Roth; Ensigns C.C. Beaman, R. Berkovitz, H.A. Carson, W. P. Carty, J.J.M. Devaney, R.L. Hesson, M.B. Keebler, A.G. Kehoe, E.H. Lotspreich, J.J. McGraw, C.F. Reichardt, Jr., J.F. Rickards, R.C. Slattery, and J.J. Walsh...