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...were as dependable as ever. Rookie Harold Newhouser, a homebred 18-year-old southpaw, made the Yankees look like bush leaguers. And Louis ('"Buck") Newsom, a cocky. 31-year-old righthander, marked his first full year with Detroit by winning 13 games in a row before breaking his thumb three weeks...
Before the season closes, Old Bo-Bo expects to win 30 games. Last week, only eleven days after he broke his thumb, he defied his doctor's orders, pitched a game against the Athletics. Starting out with his thumb wrapped in adhesive, he pompously ripped the bandage off after walking one batter, proceeded to strike out ten men before being sent to the showers in the eleventh inning with his first defeat since the opening game of the season. Undismayed at breaking his winning streak, Newsom shrugged his massive shoulders, proclaimed: "I'm startin' a new streak...
...Navy Department (which includes the Marine Corps) undertook to censor his civilian writings. For answer he got a weaseling memo, finding in one paragraph that as an inactive reservist he was not subject to control, in the next that by "custom and usage" he was under the Navy thumb. Replied Al Williams: "I tender my resignation quietly and without publication. . . . My services will always be at the command of the U. S. Marine Corps. And in case of emergency I shall bring with me my two standard single-seater fighting planes . . . and they shall be donated without cost...
Chicago was a pioneer with the "standby" system, by which outside union men playing in its radio stations must either join the union local or pay a thumb-twiddling local musician to stand by. Jimmie Petrillo forbade Chicago men to make phonograph records which might be broadcast. He saw to it that political campaign trucks resound with live musicians, not recordings. When a giant panda was to be welcomed by a troop of Chinese Boy Scout buglers, Petrillo demanded that eight union men be hired as well. Italian as were his sympathies, he hit the ceiling when the Italian Consul...
Crane's rhapsody to Brooklyn Bridge was an unscientific, rummy rodomontade. They considered Brooklyn Bridge an antique, remarkable for its historical associations (it was built by rule of thumb), esthetically redeemed only by its brute strength...