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...games and losing 8. At Daytona Beach, Fla. the following year, he won 18 games and hit so well (.352) that he was used as an outfielder when he wasn't pitching. In a chase after a fly ball at Daytona, his career was set for him: he took a header and landed on his left shoulder. His throwing arm never felt the same after that. So Pitcher Musial, as Pitcher Babe Ruth did 22 years before him, became a full-time slugging outfielder...
...Davis Cup without lanky Veteran (30) Jack Bromwich; it would have meant a trip by air, and Bromwich preferred ships. This time the Aussies traveled Jack's way and he came along as playing captain. It helped some, but not enough. At Forest Hills last week, the Aussies took the doubles (with Bromwich and 29-year-old Billy Sidwell as heroes), but the U.S.'s Ted Schroeder and Pancho Gonzales trod the challengers down under in the singles to keep the cup, 4-1. Australia's consolation: it was a bit better than last year...
...half of the people inter viewed in a National Association of Broadcasters survey said that their chief source of daily news is the radio. The next question is: What kind of news are they getting? To find out, a special committee of the National Association of Radio News Directors took a one week look at the four news associations (Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Transradio Press). Last week, the committee issued a 12,000-word report described by N.A.R.N.D. President Sig Mickelson as a "fact-finding rather than a fault-finding project." If not faults, the committee found...
...reward for not even hinting at the story only 35 miles from Santa Fe, the Army gave the New Mexican an international beat on the 1945 announcement of what had been going on at Los Alamos. Will Harrison thinks his crusading journalism also pays off. Since he took over, the New Mexican's circulation has gone...
...reward for not even hinting at the story only 35 miles from Santa Fe, the Army gave the New Mexican an international beat on the 1945 announcement of what had been going on at Los Alamos. Will Harrison thinks his crusading journalism also pays off. Since he took over, the New Mexican's circulation has gone...