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...Buck Newsom, Joe Medwick, Johnny Allen. When he was through pruning, only 14 of the 34 spring players remained. With few exceptions, other clubs could find no new material worth buying. In St. Paul, Rickey found 6 ft. 6½ in. First Baseman Howard Schultz; in Montreal, Outfielder Luis Olmo; in Durham, Outfielder Gene Hermanski. He brought in other youngsters. He asked 20,000 school and semi-pro coaches to name their best players, so far has seen 3,700 of them at 15 try-out camps (estimated cost...
Hermanski, Olmo and Schultz fitted the bill. Although the Dodgers continued to lose more games than they won, the newcomers more than upheld their end of the show. This earned Branch Rickey no vote of confidence from the Brooklyn skeptics. Baseball fans, like military armchair strategists, are impatient for quick victories. But Rickey is a realistic general with the long view. He stands firm before Brooklyn like Montgomery before El Alamein...
...through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed off his ship by Argentina's President Augustin P. Justo. Escorted in a coach through four miles of people-packed streets, Cardinal Pacelli stopped briefly in the Cathedral. Then he went to the sumptuous mansion of the Countess of Olmo, Argentina's richest woman landowner. There he occupied an austere apartment, containing, at his request, the minimum of necessary furniture. In the centre of Palermo Park, one of the world's largest, was erected a great cross, 100 ft. high, of white stucco, with great altars...
Despite Duke Borea d'Olmo centenarian zeal, the three royal special trains were an hour late in reaching Assisi; a thunderstorm burst; Princess Giovanna dropped her bridal bouquet into the gutter; Tsar Boris was soaked to the skin; during the ceremony tear after tear coursed down the cheeks of the bride...
...Duke Borea d'Olmo's 100 years there has never been such a royal wedding. As the bridal party left the church the rain changed to hail, but Duke Borea d'Olmo is invincible. "Yes, there was hail," his spokesman admitted to correspondents, "but that is not unlucky. We understand that the peasants of Assisi consider that St. Francis was pleased. They think of the hailstones as a sort of supernatural confetti, confetti di San Fracesco...