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...added an Oak Leaf Cluster for bombing a Jap battleship Jan. 9, 1942. Six weeks later in Java he earned a Silver Star by saving a fellow officer in the face of enemy fire, later got an Oak Leaf Cluster to add to that medal. News of Colonel Reiser's death has probably not reached his wife Margaret, who is still interned in Manila. With the death of Don Keiser, Army men believed the title of youngest colonel passed to Richard H. Carmichael, 29, commander of the 19th Group (TIME, Dec. 7), promoted last month following his return...
STOUT (with lunch-counter sarcasm): "As you see, they've got the facts, no getting away from it. Take the six leading batters in the major leagues: Williams, Gordon, Wright, Reiser, Lombardi, Medwick. Some bunch of Germans. Also the great German prize fighter, Joe Louis...
...Goff, former Rhode Island State College athlete, from the second through the seventh, the Crimson exploded for four tallies in the eighth, to even things at five all. '46'er Bill Fitz's hitting and clever base-running featured the all-important rally. Borrowing a leaf from sucedster Pete Reiser's book, after singling he scurried to second on a foul out to the catcher, went to third on Fitzgibbon's infield hit, and raced home ahead of the throw-in when Gallagher hit a high pop-up to deep short-stop...
...Dodgers, victors over the Cardinals by two and a half games last year, again have the edge in power. The Navy took Cookie Lavagetto and Don Padgett. But Brooklyn still has Dolph Camilli, the league's "most valuable player"; Pete Reiser, the league's No. 1 batter; and three other players who hit over .300 last year. Besides these old reliables, the Dodgers have one shining newcomer: Infielder Arky Vaughan, who never hit under .300 during ten years with the Pittsburgh Pirates. A star shortstop during all of his major-league career, Vaughan has been shifted to third...
Besides Camilli, Brooklyn has Rookie Pete Reiser, its fabulous $100 find, who has outhit (.343) every batter in the National League; scrappy Joe Medwick (.318), a good man to have when the chips are down; and dead-eye Dixie Walker, a consistent .300 hitter who has broken up many a ball game during the Dodgers' nerve-racking last few weeks...