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Chapple socked the sphere for a 432 average, just 124 points above his closest rival among the regulars, Mort Dunn. Playing the full nine innings in every one of the team's ten contests, Chapple was the only member of the starting nine to hit safely in every one of the games. In addition, the keystone-sacker came in second in the total bases column, finishing one behind the 19 of Wallace, who, despite an average of only 270, smashed out two doubles, two triples, and one home run to lead the squad in extra-base blows...
...Mort aux Boches! They were more than eager to talk to the Americans. They said the Americans would be welcomed generally by the French patriots. The Germans, they said, had been very correct in their social relations with the French, but had eaten the cream of the crop and had compelled the Frenchmen to work on beach fortifications, and the French women to do their laundry, for which they paid...
Stokowski had been engaged to conduct the Mexico Symphony Orchestra in a broadcast in memory of the torpedoing of the tanker Potrero del Llano, which led to Mexico's entry into the war. One of the numbers programmed was La Mort, whose composer is kindly, snowy-haired Manuel Ponce, a Mexican Indian whose Estrellita is one of the most popular songs of all time...
...explanatory as anyone was ample, well-meaning Contralto Josefina ("Cha-cha") Aguilar, who sang Ponce's La Mort under another conductor. She had handed the six-instrument score to Stokowski. It was not Ponce's score; Ponce, unable to find a full orchestral score, had agreed to let her offer the smaller one to the conductor, but asked her to explain the situation. Somehow the explanation got lost along...
...attitude of the Command must [also] be taken into consideration. The Army Air Forces is a highly publicity-minded outfit. . . . The musical play, Winged Victory, is proof. ... So is the efficient and outsized . . . A.A.F. publicity bureau. Result: a mort of publicity and medals. . . . One not-too-prominent Army pilot has 14 various medals. A comparable Marine pilot...