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...eight seasons*) and his eight-year batting average with the Red Sox. At .353 it is the third highest in modern baseball records, right behind Ty Cobb's .367 (for 24 seasons) and Rogers Hornsby's .358 (for 23) and ahead of such immortals as Ruth (.342 for 22 seasons), Gehrig (.340 in 17) and Jimmy Foxx (.325 in 20). That makes Ted the best hitter, at least, in the game today...
Barricade (Warner) casts Raymond Massey as a leering sadist at the head of a shady gold mine worked by bums and brigands who have nowhere else to go but jail. Into his clutches come Dane Clark and Ruth Roman, two fugitives from justice. Before they can get away to square their debt to society, Massey maltreats not only most of the cast but also some lines from Shakespeare, whose Richard III he idolizes and emulates. In the end, the screen fills up with enough blood-splotched corpses (in Technicolor) to make Richard III look like a Quaker. By that time...
Spare the Rod. Over the years, the female teacher, as reported by U.S. authors, never seemed to improve. There were a few "sweet young things" in popular novels (e.g., Rose Kramer in Ruth Suckow's Kramer Girls'), but they invariably escaped their fate by marrying or becoming secretaries before it was too late. The rest were like Thomas Wolfe's teacher in Look Homeward, Angel ("a gaunt red-faced spinster, with fierce glaring eyes"), or like Sherwood Anderson's frustrated Kate Swift, "silent, cold, and stern...
...scarred masonry of the J. P. Morgan & Co. building after the Wall Street explosion of an anarchist bomb. But The Golden Twenties mostly concentrates on the high, wide & handsome aspects of the Jazz Age-Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath while Lind bergh flew the Atlantic, Gertrude Ederle swam the Channel, and miners tunneled in vain to save Floyd Collins from a Ken tucky cave...
Died. Ralph Greenleaf, 50, dapper, 16-time world champion of pocket billiards; of bronchial pneumonia; in Philadelphia. Greenleaf, who did for pool what Babe Ruth did for baseball, set an official world's record in 1929 of 126 balls without a miss, once, in an exhibition match, pocketed 269 straight balls...