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...Brooklyn Dodgers were two games out in front. One man who had a lot to do with it was a wartime pickup who wasn't very big, had only a fair arm and couldn't outrun his grandmother. But Ed ("The Brat") Stanky, 28, has the Dodger habit of getting into fights (which is good box office) and a high talent for getting bases-on-balls (which is good baseball...
Says Elizabeth Arden: "A beautiful horse is like a beautiful woman." An ugly horse doesn't stay long in Arden's barn, even if he can outrun Satan. About two mornings a week she shows up at the track to make sure her "darlings" don't get too much fresh air, or too little. She worries about flies biting them, and orders screens. Her horses once came down with a misery, and Arden ordered them rubbed down with her Ardena skin tonic instead of horse liniment, which, she said, smelled terrible. The trainer told her the stuff...
...Report. Though principles had often outrun performance, MacArthur's 19-section report showed this enormous undertaking begun. Items: ¶ There has been "growing consciousness of Japan's war guilt." ¶ Schools, teachers and textbooks are being completely reformed. (Last week MacArthur invited 30 leading U.S. educators to visit Japan and make recommendations.) ¶ Instead of thought control, "the press, radio, cinema and theater are now free to express themselves." ¶ The number of Japanese magazines has increased from 32 to 306. ¶ Among the new radio programs: The Man on the Street, The Woman's Hour...
Princely Crew. Most of the Argo's 50-oar crew were royal princes, each with his special talent and gift of the gods. The only woman aboard was a princess: Atalanta of Calydon, the virgin huntress, who could outrun any man in Greece. Argus, who built the Argo, was the world's finest shipwright. Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda and the swan (Zeus), were champion prizefighters. Nauplius was an unrivaled navigator (naturally: his father was Poseidon, the sea god). Orpheus could make sticks & stones dance when he played his lyre. Hercules of Tiryns was the strongest...
...Falls City, Nebraska, Gil Dodds threw a rock at a passing car. The occupant emerged and gave wrathful chase; Dodds gave him a good race, but finally succumbed. The driver turned out to be Lloyd Hahn, then a famous miler, and he was so surprised at being so nearly outrun that he forgot the damage to his car and gave Dodds his first real instruction in running...