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...Branca blew down the lead-off man with such an assortment of stuff that Durocher decided to leave him in a while. Nine innings later, 20-year-old Branca had struck out nine Cardinals, given up only three hits, beaten the Cards 5-0 and reduced Brooklyn's rabid cheering section to happy exhaustion from applying "body English" to every pitch...
With the Poughkeepsie contest still unreconstructed, the nation-wide struggle out west is the outstanding rowing event of the inter-collegiate season. Hence a victory, unlooked for by even the most rabid of Crimson rooters, or a finish among the top three eights, would mean that the current Bolles aggregation would return the sweep swingers to a position somewhere near the top of the heap spot that Nowell operatives have traditionally held...
...Friend Browder's desk, reporters noted a traveling chess board. Said he chattily: "I like to wrestle with chess problems." This was in the best Communist tradition (Marx, Lenin and Trotsky had all been rabid chess strategists); but Communism's most perplexing chess problem was still Earl himself...
Will UNO Work? The onetime rabid isolationist reaffirmed his faith in a United Nations: "I do not share the melancholy pessimism heard in some quarters." Some phases of the London record, of course, were disappointing: "I confess that in this first meeting of the United Nations I missed the uplifting and sustaining zeal for a great, crusading, moral cause which seemed to imbue the earlier Charter sessions at San Francisco." He had sensed "a tendency to relapse into power politics ... to use the United Nations as a self-serving tribune rather than as a tribunal...
Besides his plain talk, the Russians will find many things about Beedle Smith to interest them. Like most of their top leaders, he is a self-made man-he rose from private, never went to the Military Academy or to college. Like many a Russian, he is a rabid chess player. Like a few quiet Russians, he is a Roman Catholic...