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Back to the Sunsets. The flop was loud and emphatic. When the show he called the "Manhattan Pee-rade" decided to continue without him, Arthur says his final chance on a Chesterfield show "laid a terrible...
...Cronin of the Red Sox. After a brief talk, slugging Ted Williams, baseball's best batter, signed a 1950 contract for the most money ever paid a big-league player, an estimated $110.000.* Mourned Brooklyn's tight-fisted Branch Rickey, who had just raised Dodger Stars Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson to alltime Brooklyn highs of $35,000: "In my 38 years . . . [in] organized ball this is the greatest inflationary period I've ever known . . . Even the players who had bad years do not expect...
Where the average big league club had taken a few score ballplayers to camp this month, Rickey had assembled more than 200-from Dodger Captain Pee Wee Reese down to raw bushers* trying to make the grade in the Dodger farm system at such places as Mobile, Ala., Ponca City, Okla. and Cairo, Ill. It took organization to keep that many players throwing, batting and listening to the oldtimers. Rickey had it all worked...
...pee-nats" in Yugoslavia; "Step-i-nak" in White Plains. Said Cardinal Spellman during the building campaign: "I don't care how you pronounce it, so long as we have the school." *The annual pay of New York public schoolteachers ranges from $2,500 to $5,400. *Despite the Supreme Court ruling in the Vashti McCollum case (TIME, March 22), some public schools still allow their students to attend once-a-week "released time" classes in religious education at nearby churches...
...sawdust joint, played some self-taught cornet and was hired on the spot to lead the band in a bigger place that Nick was starting. On opening night, the thin, bashful kid from Providence found himself giving the downbeat to such hot-jazz bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young Man With...