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...National League, if money-minded General Manager Branch Rickey, founder of the farm system, had not sold so many ($4,000,000 worth) of their promising farm products. Still, St. Louis has nothing to mope about. Manager Billy Southworth, a paternal oldtimer with infectious enthusiasm, has a green thumb for ripening green players. This year's Cardinals have six regulars batting over .300; Creepy Crespi, a rookie second-baseman who has made the infield click; Ernie White, a 24-year-old South Carolina southpaw who, in his first year with the Big Team, has won twelve games-three...
...goat-bearded tall man who stuck his thumb in the goat-bearded short man's eye died this week in Beverly Hills. He was Lewis Maurice Fields, 74, known to two generations as the aggressive half of Weber & Fields, the greatest knockabout comedy team in theater history...
Into this pretty pie Hillsborough's tax collector thereupon thrust his thumb, but his chances of pulling out a plum were rather iffy. Mrs. Cromwell can protest the assessment. Most likely grounds: that she is a resident of Honolulu, not Hillsborough...
Last fall Zivic fought young Davis in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Zivic gave the kid the business. Davis, stung by an alleged thumb-poke in the eye, forgot his professional acquaintanceship with the Marquess of Queensberry, relapsed into a fury of fouls. Disqualified and suspended "for life" (after kicking the referee), the Brownsville bully boy sullenly joined the Army...
...reason for not bearing down on them. "If a company is in a position to absorb cost increases, we're asking them to do it," said OPACS Price Director John Kenneth Galbraith; "the majors can do it, the minors cannot. " He formulated OPACS's rule of thumb: "Any company making reasonable profits, in the light of the past, should not increase prices...