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...spite of some of the same shortages of materials. Steel was flown by plane to factories to keep production lines rolling; "expediters" hunted down parts and materials tucked away in obscure corners, or prowled in grey markets for steel and lumber; newspapers headlined the Scoreboard of production like bulletins from the front...
...cheering was all in one half of the stands tht day, for when the final whistle blew, the scoreboard read Princeton 35, Harvard...
...four men-Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Hack Wilson and Hank Greenberg-had hit 50 home runs in one season. Last week, with eight games of the season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50 into the left-field Scoreboard at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which put him one up on the New York Giants' Big John Mize (TIME, Aug. 25) in the race to be 1947's home-run king. Mize became the sixth to make the 50 Club two days later...
...Scoreboard it looked good: it was 14-14, going into the last quarter. But New York's pro football Giants just didn't have a backfield to their name...
Other feats of "the busy 25" Eli raiders on their Princeton operation were tieing up network communications and officials, painting the stadium clock blue, brushing a large blue "Y" on dormitory walls, and taking scoreboard numerals as trophies...