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...apparent inability to straighten out his star pitcher, Bill Voiselle, who be gan by winning eight straight and then lost six in a row, is a case in point. After being twice knocked out of the box, Voiselle was leading the Cardinals 3-to-1, with two out in the ninth, when a 53-minute rain interrupted proceedings. Instead of putting in a game-saver for the thoroughly cooled-out Voiselle, Ott left him in, and the Cardinals won the game. Afterwards, Ott fined Voiselle $500 for not wasting an out side pitch after getting a 2-0 count...
...straighten you out on the Ladies Doverdale. In TIME [May 7] you have a photograph of Audrey, wife of Baron Doverdale. But the story accompanying the picture is an account of the vigorous dissent of Leslie, Lady Doverdale to the rendering of the song, Lili Marlene, in her presence at a Manhattan hotel. The Dowager Lady Doverdale (Leslie) is the stepmother-in-law of Lady Doverdale (Audrey), who, as a matter of fact, has been in England throughout the war in charge of the records section of the R.A.F. Comforts Committee at the Air Ministry...
...UNRRA employe on the operating level in Washington wants to straighten out some tangled matter with his opposite number in the London office, he writes a letter. It moves through UNRRA channels-to the division chief, the chief of requirements and allocations, and finally to the appropriate deputy director. Having thus gathered several other signatures, it is ready to move out. The process is repeated in reverse in the London office, and if the recipient answers, the rigmarole begins all over again. Said one UNRRA employe last week: "By the time we get an answer through this jungle...
Some of the Germans dove on the bombers with jets open. "They would straighten out," said one U.S. pilot, "and strafe from underneath. One did this trick, and let a rocket go into a Fort of our formation. The Fort disappeared...
...organization was not autonomous, and Miss Mac herself had no command as such; as director of the WAVES she merely stood in the background, giving advice and, like a wise spinster aunt, smoothing things out. Her WAVES were a womanly infiltration into certain spots where they could pick up, straighten out and perform some chores even better than...