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Last week in Vatican City, at the first consistory (meeting of cardinals) of his reign, Pope Pius XII appointed a new Army & Navy bishop. He chose his most trusted U. S. servant, Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, present Archbishop of New York. To do most of the active work of the chaplaincy, the Holy Father created an auxiliary bishop: Rev. John Francis O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University...
Sport's No. 1 hero of 1939 is dimple-cheeked, piano-legged Lou Gehrig. Last spring, when a rare form of paralysis compelled First Baseman Gehrig to give up his beloved post after 15 years with the New York Yankees, U. S. sportswriters wreathed their columns with encomiums seldom bestowed on the living. Skimming over the Iron Horse's unrivaled feat of playing in 2,130 consecutive major-league games and casually reviewing his extraordinary batting records (some surpassing those of Babe Ruth), they crowned Lou Gehrig's Honesty, Modesty, Courage. Practically canonized. 36-year...
...New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appointed Idol Gehrig to a ten-year term on the Municipal Parole Commission, to serve as an inspiration to delinquent boys. Rich George Ruppert, brother of the late owner of the Yankees, offered to sponsor the baseball career of a "second Lou Gehrig," to be chosen from the sidewalks of New York (Gehrig's nursery). Last week the Baseball Writers Association of America, waiving the rule that a candidate must be out of play for at least a year, unanimously voted Lou Gehrig into Baseball's Hall of Fame...
First contestants: Miami High School, with a season's record of nine straight victories (over schools from five States), v. Garfield High School, New Jersey champions, two years undefeated...
...first woman to play squash racquets in the U. S. (in 1918, she demanded that Boston's men's clubs let her play on their courts, house rules or no house rules), the rich Boston Brahmin, great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson and heiress to a big New England shipping fortune, has been going great guns ever since...