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Last week large, dark Leroy ("Satchelfoots") Paige went home to his native Mobile for a day of triumph. Satchelfoots owes his nickname (optionally shortened to either "Satchel" or "Foots") to his size 12 shoes. He stands 6 ft. 3½ in. high, weighs 186 lb., and is regarded by colored baseball fans and many white sportswriters as the greatest Negro pitcher of all time, as one of the greatest pitchers of any hue in baseball history...
...that the only access to the conclave would be one doorway. Over that entrance the head of Rome's noble Chigi family would stand guard-Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, hereditary Marshal of the Holy Roman Church. The Marshal would carry in a red velvet satchel two keys to the door, open it only after consultation with Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli within...
Across the aisle, quite lost and unnoticed in the subway crowd, sat her "Daddy", Richard Cresson Harlow, discussing with Skip Stahley and a few other cronies the great victory over Yale that afternoon. He carried his usual black satchel...
...beginning to be afraid that Mother's Day has got completely out of hand. She still sends violent telegrams to President Roosevelt, occasionally walks round Philadelphia streets carrying a black satchel full of publicity releases and pictures of herself taken shortly after her mother's death. But mostly she stays behind the heavy curtains of her old red-brick house on North 12th St. Her telephone is not listed. Her letterhead does not have an address. Her sister, who lives with her, is almost blind; her Negro answers the doorbell only when it rings a certain number...
...step toward their education in democracy when Stalin's constitution labeled these things unconstitutional. So likewise it was education last week to 100,000,000 Russians to find that they were entitlednks, sending money abroad to Lenin & Trotsky, crisp banknotes which the go-between Litvinoff carried in his little satchel. In 1918, during the civil war with the White Russians, pugnacious Disciple Stalin, describing the difficulties of keeping his Communist troops together, wrote to the Master Lenin: "I drive and scold everyone who needs...