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...Cincinnati, Rogers Hornsby, baseball's greatest right-hand hitter (lifetime average: .358) and most unpopular manager, was dismissed as manager of the sixth-place Cincinnati Redlegs. It was the fifth such job he has had since leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a world championship...
...about deflation, think they can stop it . . ."). Kiplinger writes every line of the Washington Letter himself, sometimes rewrites an item a dozen times to produce what he calls "sweep lines," i.e., sentences that have a single thought to a line, and that end with a punctuation mark at the right-hand margin...
...press representative, asked Heikal if he wanted a lawyer to defend him, he replied: "I am in no need of a lawyer. I came here to accuse. I don't consider myself to be accused of anything." To Heikal's defense rallied Naguib's right-hand man, Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, who told the committee that Naguib's government does not want "newspapers [to] applaud us [because] secretly we would have bought this [applause]." Nevertheless, the committee ordered Hei kal to 1) apologize or 2) stand trial and face suspension as a working newsman...
...Ambassador to London, was recalled to switch jobs with Jacob A. Malik, First Deputy Foreign Minister in Moscow. This was the post Gromyko held when he was sent to London last year to relieve Georgy N. Zarubin, now Ambassador to Washington. The new job will make Gromyko once again right-hand helper of Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov and give him, in title at least, equal rank with the other First Deputy, Andrei Vishinsky...
...only well run but also among the fastest-growing in the U.S. By last week it had grown so big that President Crawford needed more help with day-to-day duties, more time for big decisions. He moved himself into the new job of chairman, moved his longtime right-hand man, John D. Wright, 47, into the presidency. Said Chairman Crawford, who is still top policy man: "In this business, you've got to live in the future...