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...wait till the experts work out on him." Last week two experts got to work on young Mr. Dewey. In the New Yorker, mordant Wolcott Gibbs, who believes in mixing plenty of gall with his ink, profiled Mr. Dewey enthusiastically in an article that read like a long, catlike scratch. Mr. Gibbs on Mr. Dewey...
...taking on all comers. Last week Monarch's Travelers played the Mobile Black Shippers. Satchel unlimbered his fearful right arm, planted his size 12's on the mound, blazed away for three innings. He faced only eleven batters, pitched only nine balls, fanned four, yielded one measly scratch hit. It was a typical Paige show and the dusky customers loved it. His team won easily...
...winning tally gave the Tigers their 6-5 win the day before as Captain Tom Healey pitched one-hit ball for six innings only to lose out when the Orange and Black counted twice in each of the last three innings. A walk, an error, and a scratch hit filled the sacks in the last frame and set the stage for the double steal on which Warner Allen came home with the winning...
...Adolf Hitler's blueprints for the Polish push were complete and Falkenhorst was given the job of raising and organizing, from scratch, an entire new division (32nd Infantry) with headquarters in the hick town of Köslin on the Pomeranian plain. Cheerfully he moved his wife and two daughters to their first real home after years of nomadic army life: an old castle just off the Köslin market place. He added municipal cares to his army work, became a military potentate. As sleepy Köslin came to life with martial activity, recruits and war materials...
...possible that Victor is starting this line to demolish competition in the field, and realizing that it will probably injure its own Red Seal irreparably as well, doesn't particularly care, because it intends to switch in a few years to the film process anyway, which completely eliminates needle-scratch and gives much better reproduction...