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...Scranton Fan Writes...
...interested boozier of the Harvard football team, I would suggest you send a scout to the annual Dream game which will be played in Scranton, Penn., is December between the county and city all stars which is composed of the cream of the Antracite Valley where some of the toughest football is played in the hard coal region, this year are some of the greatest prospects that I ever saw so I would advise you to look 'em over...
...Wood Jr., Yale '41, now pitching for the minor-league Scranton Red Sox: a no-hit, no-run game against the Albany Senators; 5-to-0; at Scranton, Pa. Watching his performance was Wood's father, famed Smoky Joe, who, by the same score, 30 years ago almost to the day, chalked up a no-hitter for the Boston Red Sox against the St. Louis Browns. > Hollywood's Bob Falkenburg: the National Boys' (under 15) tennis championship; for the second successive year; defeating Jack Tuero of New Orleans...
Musicraft, an outfit which hitherto specialized in high-brow discs, got into the chain-store trade by merest chance. Last summer Eli Oberstein's U. S. Record Corp. (TIME, Feb. 19) petitioned for reorganization. Its record-pressing plant, in Scranton, Pa., was owned by Scranton industrialists, who extricated it from the U. S. corporate setup. Musicraft saw its chance, contracted with the Scranton group to press the anonymous Masterpiece recordings...
Last week devout Brazilian toymakers thanked their patron saint and a U. S. businessman as they delivered 250,000 toys to Lojas Americanas, Brazil's best-known variety chain. It was the biggest order they had ever received from jolly, pink-faced Jim Marshall. Born in the Scranton coal belt, Jim Marshall is no Yankee fireball. Eschewing the impatient, hardheaded methods of most "dollar diplomats," he has for twelve years been just as friendly, almost as easygoing, as his customers. Result: he is the No. 1 storekeeper for Brazil's masses...