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Died. James J. ("Jimmy") Collins, 73, baseball's onetime and perhaps alltime greatest third baseman; of pneumonia; in Buffalo. Famed for his fast defense against bunts, he once had the pleasure of tossing out Bunt-Attempters Wee Willie Keeler, John McGraw and Hughie Jennings in succession. He managed the Boston Red Sox to victory in 1903-8 first World Series, quit professional baseball in 1911, invested in real estate, went broke in the depression, managed the Buffalo Parks Department teams...
Explained McGraw-Hill's Executive Vice President James S. Thompson: "We are in a war of science. . . . The courses of study draw from every technological field. The classrooms include factory storerooms . . . corners of airplane hangars . . . 'toughening camps' high in the Sierra Nevada, training ships at sea. The students number millions...
Keeping pace with the accelerated output of tanks, planes, guns, U.S. technical book publishers are bringing out larger lists than ever before. McGraw-Hill has seen its number of "war books" jump 2%, 14%, 50% during the three successive years. Against the trade's 452 titles of 1939, 1942 will see the publication of at least 700 books technically concerned with the war effort. In Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., whose book department now handles approximately 3,000 technical titles, sales are five times greater than in pre-war years...
Open Assignment: Begin Spencer, Case Book of Law and Business (McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1939) at p. 335. Continue in this book until further notice. R. J. Baker...
...Larry MacPhail's Brooklyn Dodgers: a 9-to-6 win over the baby-blue-clad Chicago Cubs; giving the Dodgers 71 victories out of the first 100 games played this season and placing them only one game behind the National League record set by John McGraw's New York Giants in 1912; at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn...