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...Regardless of criticism and a lackluster record of congressional achievement this session, he would continue in his conviction that the ground rules specify separate functions for the branches, that the executive should not attempt to browbeat the legislative. And if his tactics, when the capital season ended, lost a pennant, he was unapologetically ready to shoulder the blame...
...slowly cocked his right arm and fired in his whistling fast ball. When Toothpick headed for the clubhouse one night last week, he could look back on a slick two-hitter. And the Cardinals had won another one, 5 to 1 to stay in front of the National League pennant race...
...Redlegs are weak in pitching; the Dodgers are getting old; the Braves are injury-prone). Back in St. Louis, fans are betting already that the fast balls of Jackson and Jones and the two kid pitchers from Oklahoma have turned the Cardinals into the one solid team in the pennant scramble...
...sports show, The Big Moment (Friday, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.). Put together by Hearst Metrotone News experts with Sportscaster Bud Palmer as host-narrator, the first of the half-hour series presented a fast-moving cavalcade of memorable events, e.g., Roger Bannister outracing John Landy, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning homer for the New York Giants in 1951, Seabiscuit's 1938 triumph over War Admiral. For change of pace, Big Moment showed a basketball-court brawl, inspected the antics of aquatic stuntmen, took a slow-motion look at a disputed football play. This week it will picture Jack...
...Game of Momentum. This year, if ever, Birdie has reason to concentrate on baseball. Cincinnati fans have already decided that the pennant is in the bag. They are so proud of their team that they have stuffed the All-Star ballot boxes so full that the All-Star game voting (which picks every starter except the pitchers) has been reduced to a patriotic absurdity. The poll count decreed that the National League start Cincinnati Redlegs at every position except first base. There, St. Louis' sturdy oldtimer Stan Musial managed to stand off the Redlegs' rooters. Though the balloting...