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Robinson also starred in the field. His perfect peg from deep right field caught catcher Lou Murgo at third, and kept the Browns from making the first a really big inning. Webb's walk to lead off batter Karb started the trouble. Successive errors by Charlie Walsh and Hank Young, plus a missed double play sent two quick runs across the place...
...celebrate his homecoming after a four-month tour of Europe, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week penned a "Patriotic Pome" for his column. While it failed to prove conclusively either that travel is broadening or that Peg is even a bottom-rung poetaster, it did give him a chance for a rare and sardonic bow to his critics. Excerpts...
...quarters of the College yesterday. Big surprise was Senator Estes Kefauver's pronounced defeat of President Harry S. Truman and the state Democratic machine. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's decided sweep of the Republican delegates and his popular vote set Senator Robert A. Taft's nomination hopes back a peg...
Pulling the Peg. The result was so exhaustive that it will take even professional economists weeks to wade through all of its essays, graphs, appendixes and guesses. One thing, at least, was clear: out of the thousand experts consulted, scarcely any two were in agreement. As might have been expected, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin insisted that the FRB had been right in pulling the peg on Government bonds (i.e., stopping rigid support), and that the FRB's whole program of credit restrictions had helped check inflation. There was one surprise: Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder...
...your Feb. 11 account of the "Three Sharpies" who pilfered the apartment of Fashion Designer Mollie Parnis, you state that the young thieves "were ... of the variety who are called 'sharpies' and who wear peg-top pants, sharply pointed shoes, Windsor-knot ties . . ." Hmmm, guess you didn't take a close enough look at the Younger Generation you wrote about a while back, as, if you had, you would have observed that the Windsor knot is very popular among the 18-to-28 age group...