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Dudley's unbeaten hockey team moved a step nearer the pennant yesterday, blanking previously undefeated Lowell, 4 to 0, at the Boston Skating Club. Neil Howland scored two goals to pace the Commuters to their fifth...
...great height (about 3,000 ft. above the summit of Mt. Blanc), they saw tracks of rabbits, mice and snow leopards. There was no snow except in crevices, but above their heads a vast plume of snow whipped off the icy summit, blowing out miles downwind like a gigantic pennant. They made maps and took photographs. Then they rejoined the rest of the party and returned to New Delhi to tell their story to the New York Times...
...Brooklyn Dodgers, who came within two games of winning the National League pennant last season, dismissed Manager Burt Shotton, longtime friend of the departed Branch Rickey. Brooklyn's new manager: pepperpot Charley Dressen, 52, onetime Brooklyn coach in the razzle-dazzle era of Larry MacPhail and Leo Durocher, manager last season of the Oakland Oaks, Pacific Coast League champions. Dressen, who got a one-year contract, said that his policy could be expressed very simply: "To win games for Brooklyn...
...resignation of Manager Eddie Dyer. Last week they gave the job to gangling Martin ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion, 33, an infield star of Cardinal teams for the past ten years. Said Marty, the youngest manager in the majors: "I'm going to do my best to win the pennant...
...Boston, where pennant plans are often sowed, but seldom reaped, Red Sox Manager Steve O'Neill not only kept the job he took over from Joe McCarthy in midseason, but made room on his squad for deposed Cleveland Manager Lou Boudreau (TIME, Nov. 20). After nine years as player-manager of the Indians, Boudreau seemed perfectly willing to settle for a nice quiet job in the Boston infield...