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...along by a suddenly rising tide. Bernard Baruch's espousal of immediate price controls (TIME, Aug. 7) had even persuaded many Republicans that Harry Truman ought to have not less but more control over the economy. But before the week was out, the tide had become a wild rip on which bounced all the old rinds and used coffee grounds of U.S. party politics...
...balloonist, with Captains Albert Stevens and Orvil Anderson (now an Air Force major general), he took a balloon 60,613 feet into the stratosphere before a rip in the fabric sent the bag plummeting earthward. The three bailed out -Kepner at 500 feet. Then Bill Kepner moved on to airplanes. In World War II he wore a general's stars, but frequently left his desk to fly combat missions. He was chief of the hard-flying Eighth Air Force Fighter Command, a principal Allied weapon in the destruction of the German Luftwa...
...Alberta's Bon Accord, life for weather-lined Bill Mulligan, 62, had been hard-pressed. Old Bill and his wife Florence were a local Maw & Paw (The Egg and I) Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...
Mize missed out on a lot of good things. With Rip Collins starring at first base, the Cards won three penuants while a groin injury stretched Mize's minor league term to six years. After playing for six years and batting .336 for the Redbirds, he was sold to the Giants in the winter of 1941 for $50,000 and two players. The Cardinals immediately won the first of three consecutive pennants...
Brown's head football coach, Charles A. (Rip) Engle, has resigned to assume the same post at Penn State, it was announced Saturday. Engle, who became head coach at Brown in 1944, lost four straight games to Harvard, before breaking the "Stadium jinx...