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Simple, clear-thinking Joe Lyons, who was endowed with all the homely virtues, left a record of accomplishment that might have been envied by what many Australians considered more brilliant predecessors. "Honest Joe" abandoned teaching school for a political career at the age of 30; energy and courage made him a Labor Premier in ultraconservative, mountainous Tasmania, smallest and loveliest of the Australian States...
...record of one of the most single-minded men in the history of medicine. At Yale young Harvey Cushing played right field on the baseball team, and became a first-rate gymnast. Following family tradition (three generations), he decided to become a doctor, went through Harvard Medical School. Afterwards he went to Johns Hopkins Hospital and studied abroad. In Switzerland he was inspired by great Surgeon Theodor Kocher to enter the field of neurology. His inspiration burned with icy clarity...
...most cases," says she, "the ideal plan to challenge a young hopeful . . . would be to send him or her to a practical school of technical training (if one exists) where the pupils are taught to drive a nail straight, or saw a plank, miter a few corners and plane the surface of rough wood until the hands become used to holding and directing tools...
...reason Arch McDonald is high favorite of the fans is that he avoids the hackneyed "hot-corner," "keystone-sack" school of baseball idiom. With Arch a pitcher is a pitcher, not a twirler; a catcher catches, he does not "do the receiving chore." The lingo he uses is his own or fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball...
Died. Joseph Aloysius Lyons, 59, onetime Tasmanian school teacher, outstanding labor leader, since 1932 Prime Minister of Australia; of a heart attack; in Sydney...