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Even of those who remain convinced that going to war would be fatal tot he cause of American democracy, almost a majority have given up hope for success in the fight for peace. This form of defeatism led one Boston columnist tacitly to admit yesterday that he could be convinced of the merits of fighting if only the Administration would hire some better showmen than bumbling Mr. Willkie and dull Mr. Stimson. Another "Over There" in his opinion would give the needed touch of crusading spirit to the cause macabre...
Such was the introduction of John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin to the big leagues and U. S. baseball fans. Born on a 29th of February of an Irish father and Dutch mother in Oklahoma, Pepper Martin had tussled with a rattlesnake as a tot, eloped at 24, kicked around in the minor leagues for seven years. Powerful and ungainly, he played baseball by main strength, sometimes throwing his bat at the ball, charging like a buffalo across the diamond, sliding into bases head first. The way he cut up ball fields made him the despair of ground keepers...
Scattered from Philadelphia to San Francisco, the Brothers Rose meet only two or three times a year. Once they meet as stockholders, tot up the profits, split them five equal ways. Several times a week they meet by telephone, manage to pile up tolls of $10,000 a year in shop talk, family gossip...
...last week, while back pay piled up faster than a check in Mr. Billingsley's club, the highest court in the State cracked down on Mr. Billingsley's hopes. It upheld the original findings. Mr. Billingsley would indeed have to take his men back, cough up. The tot to date...
...itself, no one of LIFE'S houses is a final architectural answer.* But together they tot up to a highest common denominator of good U. S. design. Laymen who looked at them could see the shape of housing things to come: a decline of the dining room, an increasing use of plywood-the club sandwich of wood and glue that can lick its weight in steel...