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...hasn't the West Coast got major-league baseball? It has the fans and the players to justify it. Those are the vociferous sentiments of Clarence Henry Rowland. Last week West Coast baseball took a long step nearer major-league status. For "Pants" Rowland, ex-barkeep, umpire, manager and scout, was elected president of the Pacific Coast League (eight teams, Seattle to Los Angeles...
...suggestion sprang from a deep South African need. Union leaders like Liberal Afrikanders Smuts and Hofmeyr hope to find for their country a stronger world position in the peace to come. Their hope will be nearer realization when & if they find the key to unity at home...
Will Lang was at the front with the Fifth Army fighting its way through the snow-capped Apennines-and "Christmas was just another day." Fill Calhoun, with the Canadians nearer the Adriatic, was quartered in an ex-Fascist's home among the minefields of Ortona-a home that was elegant enough until the retreating Germans vandalized the plumbing along with the statuary...
Soul's Patience. Rome was still 78 miles away, not much nearer than it was a month ago. Once Americans and British had hoped to be in the capital by Christmas ; now they saw only many bitter days ahead. The Nazi press twitted the Allies on faulty generalship, on lost "opportunity" that will "never return...
...their gross at home, but perhaps 20 times what British films have ever made in a year in the U.S. Besides that, British earnings in the U.S. are taxed much more heavily than the U.S. companies' gross in Britain. J. Arthur's passion is to exact something nearer...