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Died. Ernest Lawrence ("Phinney") Thayer, 77, bronzed, snow-haired author of the famed doggerel, Casey at the Bat; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Still engraved in schoolboy hearts of the '90s is its closing quatrain...
When U. S. schools open their doors next month, it will be clear that the U. S., in the space of a schoolboy's vacation, has plunged into the full throes of arming for self-defense. Prime question facing the schools: How can they help? Last week the Educational Policies Commission told them...
...season got under way, Del Baker's Tigers began to click-partly because of fiery Shortstop Dick Bartell, but mostly because of the pitching staff. Schoolboy Rowe, Detroit's No. 1 pitcher in 1934-35, recovered his old form after a year in the minors nursing a lame...
Groups of Nazi soldiers strolled idly through the tiny streets of the little old walled pirate town of St. Malo last week, amiably tested their schoolboy French on the natives. The natives' terror of the German scourge was beginning to give way to frank curiosity; after all, hadn't this been a leave area for the big blond Americans in the last war? Blitzkrieg-weary, everybody relaxed expansively in the warmth of a summer...
...Ridicule of authority. "I had seen bands of young Nazis in the streets of Vienna playing all sorts of schoolboy tricks on the police, not out of mischief but on orders and for the purpose of destroying public respect for them." Nazi agents with pocket radio transmitters just strong enough to be picked up by reconnaissance planes were used to furnish the jesting German radio with luncheon menus, etc. of important Allied personages...