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...fiftyish) Relief Pitcher Satchel Paige ("Satch plays better now that he's had all his teeth pulled") and buying a Japanese pitcher now playing in Honolulu ("If a ballplayer can help this club I'll take him if he's blue with pink spots"). He will sift the minor leagues for power hitters ("This club couldn't punch its way out of a paper bag with a crowbar"). And last week he went after Rogers Hornsby (now managing at Seattle) as manager...
Mystery Man. The more the Oklahoman and Times dug, the worse it smelled. The Oklahoman's court reporter, Ray Parr, teamed up with Van Dyke and Timesman Henry Burchfiel to sift through a 20-year mountain of records. They soon noticed that a "Ted Smith" had bought much of the tax-sale land, though nobody in town knew any real-estate man named Ted Smith. When the reporters checked up on notaries who had witnessed "Ted Smith's" signature, they flushed a well-to-do printing-company executive named W. C. Bonney. He admitted he had used...
...rulers try to shield themselves from the view of the non-Communist world. Yet week by week; news flows out of Red China-from the 1,500 Chinese who arrive every day in Hong Kong, from foreigners leaving the country, from letters, from Communist newspapers and radio. To sift, compare, and report this news, TIME placed Correspondent Robert Neville in Hong Kong. On this page is a week's grist from the Hong Kong bureau's mill...
...aired an idea of his own that might lengthen high-school courses. Ewing's proposal: to give basic military training as part of the curriculum, even though it might mean an extra year in high school.What would be needed after that, Ewing thought, was a Government agency to sift the graduates, determine "how many, and who, will be assigned to military service, to college training, and to industry...
...impossible to sift the thousands of candidates for state offices with the purpose of pointing out those who should be elected and those who should be defeated. It would be equally impossible to discuss the candidates for Congress in every district in the nation if local issues alone were involved in each one's election or defeat. But this is not the case...