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...Ethel Barrymore, young Vanderbilt and the 31,000 other Ethels and Als who were lucky enough to get in. Brooklyn's fabulous Dodgers were playing a four-game series with the daredevil young Cardinals of St. Louis-a head-on clash in one of the most exciting pennant races in major-league baseball...
...their beloved "Bums" could take three games, Brooklyn fans figured, they might pull far enough away from those pesky Cards to shake them off in the homestretch, give Brooklyn its first pennant in 21 years. In the first doubleheader, with cagey Cardinal Manager Southworth starting two southpaws (poison to the Dodgers' three left-handed power hitters), "them Bums" were lucky to break even-3-to-7, 3-to-2. In the second doubleheader, it was do or die for Brooklyn. But the best they could do was split it again...
Neither the War nor the Gas Curfew is something to look forward to, but for baseball fans the looming World Series is. To every fan, it was last week apparent, on Aug. 1, that the American League pennant was already in the bag. The smooth, smart, smitey New York Yankees, with a Murderers' Row comparable to that of Babe Ruth's day, had won 45 of their last 50 games, were twelve games ahead of the second-place Indians. Even jut-jawed Joe McCarthy, most modest manager in the business, admitted that nothing but a catastrophe could stop...
Need for Speed. At 9:30 every morning last week a black, chauffeur-driven Humber, sporting London's R.A.F. pennant at its radiator cap, drew away from a Mayfair hotel and whizzed to the Air Ministry in Whitehall. Peter Portal hopped out and literally ran upstairs to his big, high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he rushes all day-reading reports at his neat walnut desk, drafting concise memos for the War Cabinet, gulping down a chop and an apple for lunch, talking with aides and prodding them with his pipe stem, phoning, planning, dining...
Adolf's Pride. The Germans cabled to the U.S. a picture which they said showed some Nazi shock troops proudly holding a Russian battle flag which they had captured in bitter fighting. Anyone who could read Russian could see that the flag was a Boy Scout pennant. Its inscription: Be Prepared-Be Prepared...