Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Publisher Joseph Pulitzer's three great cartoonists have all stuck to their earnest convictions. One of them, poker-playing Daniel Fitzpatrick, lean, well-paid and determinedly independent, is still a mainstay of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and one of the foremost men in his profession. Another, Robert Minor, has long since laid down his charcoal to follow his beliefs into another profession (he is a member of the political committee of the Communist Party in the U.S.). The third, Rollin Kirby, once the best-known of the three, last week quit...
Many a baseball expert predicted at the beginning of the season that this year's World Series, if played at all, would take place on the Fourth of July. But last week U.S. baseball, major and minor, had survived the Fourth, had staged their midseason all-star games and were making elaborate plans for their October finales...
...minors, backbone of U.S. baseball, have been hardest hit. Of their 41 leagues, twelve have folded this year: ten were frightened out of starting the season, two gave up when seacoast dimout regulations prevented night games. Approximately 25% of their players have been lost to the armed forces and higher-paid defense jobs. Another wartime blow to the night-playing, bus-traveling minor league clubs was the recent ODT ban on chartered busses. But as long as they can get around in borrowed station wagons, baseball's bush leaguers have no intention of quitting...
...Army peacetime flying had been a model of sanity and caution. In the decade ending last spring the accident rate had been steadily shaved, but it had been inching up ever since the training-expansion program began. Only a few of the accidents were fatal. Seventy per cent were minor, mostly on training fields-pilots and student pilots telescoped their landing gears in hard touchdowns or chewed up wingtips in groundloops...
...time. For six years Fleming floundered around Detroit's farm clubs before he was finally traded to Nashville. There, last year, after a tonsillectomy, he suddenly got red hot and finished the season with a batting average of .414-second highest in all the 41 minor leagues. Snapped up by Cleveland (for $12,500) to replace Hal Trosky this year, Fleming has not cooled off. Last week he was batting .343 to trail only two American Leaguers: Yankee Joe Gordon and Red Sox Bobby Doerr...