Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Order in Council, unpublished because it was supposedly of no public interest, Montel got the right to stay in Canada, eventually become a citizen if he desired. Included in the order were two other Frenchmen: Dr. André Charles Emanuel Boussat and Julien Gaudens Labedan. A similar order is in the works for a fourth small-time collaborator, Jean Louis Hue. The government's rationalization: "Well, they're here. They've got jobs. Let them stay...
...Series. He was not only the brain of Cleveland's keyed-up baseball organism, he was also the heart of it. Boudreau's pick-off play (catching a runner off base) was easily the Series' most spectacular play, and an example of his drill-order perfectionism. The first time it was tried, Boudreau tagged Runner Phil Masi, and thought he had him (the pictures seemed to bear him out) but Umpire Bill Stewart called the runner safe...
Thoughtfully shifting his cud of tobacco, John Sain wound up and fired in the first pitch. Big John, a boy from Arkansas, retired the first three Cleveland Indians in order. Whatever hopes the underdog Boston Braves had of winning the first World Series game were pinned on his strong right arm. At $35,000 a year, he was the National League's highest paid player...
Then Bob Feller, carrying no tobacco but more dough (the American League's highest paid player, at $87,000), strode stiff-legged to the mound. At 29, Fireball Bob, like Sain, was pitching his first World Series game. Down went the first three Boston Braves in order...
...manager for a shoe company, made her a housewife at 17, and she began making neat, ruffled little "apron frocks" for herself. She decided to start the Donnelly Garment Co. -with $1,270 in savings and two power sewing machines-after a Kansas City store sold out a test order of Nellie's dresses in a few hours. Before long the business was grossing $1,000,000. After that, nothing slowed her up much...