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...still booming along. It had had a tremendous expansion-at the wartime peak employment .was up 99% over 1939's. Unlike many a war-factory town, Cleveland had suffered no serious letdown. Employment had snapped back and was still climbing-it was well over 155% of the prewar rate. If there had been no national strikes, Greater Cleveland's industries by now would be employing many more than the 225,000 they...
That blow did almost as much for Ted Williams' reputation as the 23 homers he had walloped for the Red Sox. Almost everybody forgot the sad all-star performance of the National Leaguers (who got whitewashed 12-0). Visiting sportswriters who knew the prewar Williams as a sulky swatter whose hitting was good and ballpark behavior was bad wrote glowing stories acclaiming him for what he was: the best hitter in baseball...
...worked with the rest of the team instead of in grouchy solitude, and the Red Sox all but sewed up the American League pennant in the first six weeks. When he ignored the jeers of the fans, they gradually turned to cheers. But he still had enough of his prewar aloofness not to tip his hat to the customers, sometimes hung around the locker-room for three hours after the game to avoid hero-worshippers. Williams had only one trouble: he seemed to get musclebound against the second-place New York Yankees. He had yet to make a hit this...
Nothing for Jan. By last week, Bata was on its knees, might soon be back on its feet. Bata had 13,500 at work turning out 550,000 pairs of shoes a week (about half of its best prewar production). In all Bata's Zlin enterprises, stockings, tires, machine tools, etc., there were 50,000 at work, second largest payroll in Czechoslovakia (first: Skoda). And in the first half of 1946 Bata National Enterprise reported a profit of 200,000,000 crowns...
...title refers, in irony, to a select circle of the prewar Harvard faculty, to which the heroine is hostess; the novel exhibits the breakdown of 1) the principle of selection, 2) the circle, and 3) the hostess. Miss Howe (sister of radio commentator Quincy Howe, daughter of Mark De Wolfe Howe) works a modest claim in territory on which J. P. Marquand had an option. Her ear is attentive, though incapable of his flights of parody; her knowledge of Boston, Cambridge and Harvard politics is sharp and sometimes subtle; her style is firm, though it would have been firmer...