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Although they had men on base in almost every inning, Eliot could not get hits when they were most needed. Dudley got both its runs in a third inning rally. Rip Metaxes pitched for the Elephants in the absence of Steve Madey, regular twirler. Mel Freedman caught for Eliot, while Bernie Fisher served behind the plate for the Commuters...
Ever in the rip tide of pressure groups, Washington during the past month was the scene of a unique Battle of the Pressagents. Sitting in judgment was an emergency Fact-Finding Board of three appointed by Franklin Roosevelt to decide whether railroad managements were justified in imposing a general 15% wage cut (TIME, April...
...Abie's Irish Rose (2,532 performances). Tobacco Road (2,050). Experienced theatregoers worried little whether Lightnin' would date, knowing that it already dated when first written. For old as folk drama is the tale of warm-hearted Lightnin' Bill Jones, who loafs as chronically as Rip van Winkle, lies as outrageously as Tartarin of Tarascon. Typical whopper: how he drove a swarm of bees across a prairie in the dead of winter without losing...
...Democratic Party spent most of last week being President of the U. S., but not without firing two more hot shots into two more State primary contests. To newshawks clustered around his White House desk he vehemently read, and adopted as his own words, an editorial from the rip-snortingly New Dealish New York Post entitled "Why the President Interferes."* This explained: "These primaries will determine to a large extent the makeup of the next Congress. And that, in turn, will determine whether or not the President can keep his campaign promises to the people...
Emma Tenayuca, dark-eyed little Red of San Antonio, Texas (TIME, Feb. 28), was nominated to run for Congress on the Communist ticket. Her opponent: Paul Kilday, who last month defeated the incumbent, rip-snorting Maury Maverick, for renomination. Nominee Kilday's brother is San Antonio's Chief of Police Owen P. Kilday, Emma Tenayuca's bitter enemy and twice her host when she was jailed for civil commotions...