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Tongue Sandwich. At bat, Josh Gibson has a peculiar habit: he rolls up his tongue and sandwiches it, like a hot dog, between his lips. Thus fortified, he can swat a ball a country mile. In 1938, playing against the Memphis Red Sox, he connected for four home runs in a single game. In 1930, in Monessen, Pa., he smashed a homer officially measured at 513 ft.* In a recent doubleheader at Griffith Stadium, he hit three home runs, one for a distance of 485 ft. Last week Gibson led both Negro leagues with a batting average...
This time no one seriously doubted that Bennett Clark, having had his swat, would have to let the confirmation slide through...
...Swat the Government. The voice of big, sandy-haired, well-fed Fulton Lewis, one of the nation's better known news commentators, reaches a conservatively estimated 2,500,000 pairs of adult ears per night. Sixty-odd sponsors shell out $2,500 a week for his views, which are aired by 155 stations of the Mutual Network (Mon. through Fri., 7 p.m. E.W.T.). Special broadcasts and lecture tours add an additional $1,500 a week to his income...
...taking the easy way out by working through industry committees, which probably would have been more efficient. He had picked some lemons on his staff: some of the forms they dreamed up were nearly as complicated as critics made out. And, though any price and rationing boss must frequently swat the public and politicians, no public official should seem to enjoy it so much...
Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, for all his uniquely good record as a wartime administrator, was still the kind of man voters would love to swat at the polls. So was Presidential alter ego Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, universally believed to be the man Franklin Roosevelt had chosen as his successor, had failed to grow up as a politico: for all his good intentions and ready-made opportunities, he was still the same thoughtful, bashful, stumbling man who used to throw boomerangs at himself in East Potomac Park. To professional politicians, Democratic and Republican, he would always have...