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...Black. Next night there was another big concert in the Casino with a few other name combos (e.g., Pianists George Shearing, Erroll Garner, Lennie Tristano) plus informal sessions that lasted till dawn. In the afternoon a slim crowd of cats had attended a forum about the origin and meaning of jazz. But the meaning of the festival itself seemed to be that jazz-whether Dixieland, bop or "modern"-more than ever has America's ear. The festival wound up tidily in the black...
...Wait Till Next Year." From then on, Willie was on fire. Up against Boston's Speedballer Warren Spahn for the first time in the Polo Grounds, he teed off on a three-and-one pitch and lofted it over the leftfield roof for a homer. His batting average started to climb. In the field he could do no wrong, did much that was phenomenal. He had an unconscious knack for doing the spectacular, an uncanny instinct for anticipating batters and baserunners. Once, when he dove out from under his cap (Mays frequently loses his cap) to catch a sinking...
...finance both deals, Burlington had some $50 million in cash and Government bonds in its till. By the two purchases, Burlington's sales (including those of the controlled companies) will be well above $400 million a year, thus putting it ahead of J. P. Stevens and making it the biggest textile manufacturer in the country. Burlington will, for the present, operate both Pacific and Goodall-Sanford under their own names...
...Mediterranean shipping family, was named president of Home Lines, one of the world's biggest transatlantic passenger carriers (Italia, Atlantic, Homeric, Roma, Nassau, Homeland). Vernicos was picked and trained for the job by his shrewd bachelor godfather, Eugen Eugenides, who was boss of the line till his death last April. Vernicos was born in Sifnos, Greece, educated at the University of London, worked for Swedish State Railways and S.K.F. before joining the Home Lines...
...Legged Bowlers. Newsman Anderson, who was born in Pittsburgh, moved to Texas after a hitch in the Army in World War I and became sports editor of the Houston Press. It was not till early in World War II, when he saw a planeload of wounded soldiers from overseas arriving at a hospital, that he became interested in professional good works. Anderson was so shaken that he decided to help them regain their health through sports...