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Leverett scored first on a 65-yard swing pass to fullback Jev Shelton. Quincy then surged back to tie the score before the halfway mark. Quincy back John Thomson was caught behind the line, and lateraled to teammate Skip Falcone, who scampered down the sideline for the TD. Most of the second half was played in Quincy territory, but the Bunnies were unable to push over a tie-breaker...
Smokey Alston smiling? The Dodgers winning? It was only yesterday that the collapsible Dodgers blew a four-game lead in the final week and presented the 1962 National League pennant to the San Francisco Giants. And it seemed only the day before that Bobby Thomson of the Giants deposited a dinky drive into the leftfield seats at the Polo Grounds to beat the Dodgers in a playoff for the 1951 pennant. Now the stage was set for another whirlwind finish that would leave the Dodgers flat on their backs, muttering dazedly: "Wait till next year...
...looks like a Dodger year. But fans have a recurrent nightmare of the old New York Giants' Bobby Thomson homering away Brooklyn's hopes in the 1951 playoff, and the memory of last year's pitching collapse and the Dodgers' virtual abdication of the crown to the Giants is still fresh...
...running at their heaviest rate in more than a year. To meet the new demand, Youngstown Sheet & Tube relit three ironmaking blast furnaces and nine steelmaking open hearths. Chicago's Inland Steel recalled 1,500 workers from long layoffs. Outside Pittsburgh, U.S. Steel reopened its obsolescent Edgar Thomson Works, usually one of the last to resume production during a pickup...
There is much of the comings and goings of the devoted admirers - Braque. Virgil Thomson, Lytton Strachey, Edith Sitwell, Ezra Pound. Ford Madox Ford and, of course, the young Hemingway -who sat in the atelier at 27 Rue de Fleurus reverently listening to the voice that Alice Toklas can still plainly hear - "deep, full, velvety like a great contralto's." She heard it last in a hospital room shortly before Gertrude was wheeled away for an operation that she did not survive: "By this time Gertrude Stein was in a sad state of indecision and worry. I sat next...