Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week John L. took on the Champ in a minor, preliminary bout: U.M.W. strikers (members of his catch-all District 50) went back to work at Celanese Corp.'s big plant in Newark. Carefully they proclaimed that they had won a "Victory" because the President himself had stepped into the fracas, ordered their return. But last week, as WLB took over his big show, John L. was not at the coal hearings: he was ensconced in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, holding a watch on the White House and ticking off the hours until his May i deadline...
Lili Marleen was composed in 1938 by a black-haired Nazi tunesmith named Norbert Schultze. Its lyricist was Hans Leip, minor poet who had a small reputation during the Weimar Republic. Rejected by some 30 music publishers, Lili Marleen finally caught on in August 1941, when Nazi broadcasters, taking over the Belgrade radio, found they had only three records to play. One was Lili Marleen. By last January they had played it twice nightly for 500 nights, and fan mail, which came from as far away as German submarines off the U.S. Atlantic coast, had run into millions of letters...
Despite this inauspicious start, big-league baseball expects to hobble through its full 1943 schedule, leaning heavily on sped-up minor-leaguers, near-40s and 4-Fs. With scarcely less enthusiasm than in peace years, experts last week tried to predict how the teams will finish in far-off October. In Betting Commissioner James J. Carroll's odds, as in sportswriters' polls, the Yankees, Cardinals and Dodgers were top-heavy favorites...
...series of excellent vignettes. George Clay and Edith Bronson stole the audience during brief appearances, while Donald Gair ably portrayed the horticulturist Uncle, hampered only by a beard which obscured too many of his lines. Mendy Weisgal startled the audience by doubling up with two minor roles. His appearance as the Nephew was too brief to be convincing; as an old man he has received attention in this column before...
Owing to the Patriot's Day vacation Monday, only three exercise credits will be necessary this week. Two of these, however, must be major credits, Clarence B. Van Wyok, secretary to the Department of Physical Education, announced last night. Squash or sculling still count as minor credit...