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Fresh from a cross-country concert tour, Metropolitan Soprano Helen Traubel turned up in Burbank, Calif, to check on one of her sideline investments: the hapless St. Louis Browns, midway through their spring tune-up. Part-Owner Traubel, in good voice, gave a pep talk to the players, then retired to a rooter's bench to watch her team win (6 to 5) an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians...
...last week, his five-star general's cap spattered with fresh green bunker paint, De Lattre pep-talked his way down the line, inspecting, encouraging, urging. Said he: "Not all one would wish, gentlemen, but we must do what we can with our time. We have none to waste...
Local Republicans, frisking about him like cherubs in a progress of Apollo, whisked beaming Bob Taft over to G.O.P. county headquarters. There some 4,000 cheering party workers had stomped through a snowstorm to hear him. Taft gave them a rousing pep talk for the approaching municipal elections. Cried he: "We have the issues and will have them in 1952. I don't know who the presidential candidate will be." The crowd...
...Liggett & Myers after graduating from Trinity College (now Duke University) in 1916, worked his way up through the cigarette factory into tobacco buying and sales, and ran L. & M.'s Philippine Islands operations for ten years before the war. His biggest job as president will be to pep up Chesterfield's sales. Last year Chesterfield sales dropped slightly from $67.5 million in 1949 to $66 million. With 18% of the cigarette market, v. 22.6% for Lucky Strike and 26.9% for Camel, Chesterfield is third in the industry...
...Street. Because four or five members of the executive are Communists, including N.U.M. General Secretary Arthur Horner, Attlee did not appeal for more coal for defense; Horner was primed to resist any such plea. Instead, Attlee's Colonial Secretary, ex-Miner Jim Griffiths, gave the executive a comradely pep talk, said the government wouldn't let the miners down. At meeting's end, Attlee promised to redress the miners' grievances in return for their pledge that they would try to dig 3,000,000 extra tons of coal by April...