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>Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York, the Nation's No. 1 isolationist: In 1939 he believed Germany's claims were "just"; in 1941 he became entangled in Nazi Agent George Sylvester Viereck's messy affairs.
The ousted Fascistophiles included a publisher, a lawyer, a dried-fruit dealer and Sylvester J. Andriano (president of the Italian Chamber of Commerce, head of Italian language schools, chairman of the North Beach draft board and onetime San Francisco police commissioner).
Second-string center is "Soup" Gardiner, younger brother of big Tom Gardiner, who was A team tackle in 1941. Soup, whose real name is Sylvester, worked himself up from the ranks and finally earned a once-over from Harlow. From then on he was made, and has been right up...
The last place Dudley Ramblers met the seventh place Adams team in the only softball tilt of the day with the cellar position at stake. Adams won, 8-5, behind the pitching of Sylvester, and left Dudley trailing the field more firmly entrenched than ever.
The big unknown was the vote of the old Farmer-Labor Party. Up for the Senate nomination was a woman who personified the party's problem: charming Norma Ward Lundeen, the 46-year-old widow of British-hating, German-loving Senator Ernest Lundeen, who was killed in a 1940...