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After the second game Mary O'Neill heard her man hum a few snatches: "All I can promise is a cozy little cottage. . . ." As usual, win or lose, Steve had bran flakes with peaches for dinner. But Grimm had a trump to play. For ten days he had rested Claude Passeau's ancient and ailing arm. After the third game, Lillian Grimm's floor-pacer passed a restful night...
...first time, three games to two. In two previous series, 1934's and 1940's, they had got that far and foozled. With Fireballer Trucks on tap, Steve (& Mary) O'Neill were sitting pretty. Charlie (& Lillian) Grimm had no choice but to come back with his trump after only two days' rest...
...wangled Roy Cullenbine from Cleveland, laid it on the line in a single pep talk and got him squared away to the business of banging 17 homers (third highest in the league) and batting in 89 runs (second highest). And O'Neill had long since named his trump card by plucking veteran Catcher Paul Richards from the minors to handle Pitchers Newhouser and Trout (40 victories this year, a record 56 last year...
...Plauen grocer named August Wilhelm Bartholdy, whose face was his misfortune: he looked like the Führer. Grocer Bartholdy, said F.G.P.S., had been carefully coached and combed, then sent to Berlin "to die on the barri cades. ... He will act as Hitler's trump card, creating a hero legend around the Führer 's death, while Hitler himself goes underground." To fasten the hoax on posterity, Reichsbildberichterstatter (Photo graphic Reporter for the Reich) Heinrich Hoffmann would "be on hand to film Hitler's last moment on the battlefield."* -Whose 82nd birthday was celebrated this week...
...Trump. Before Molotov arrived in Washington, Moscow played a trump. Into Moscow flew President Boleslaw Bierut, Premier Osubka-Morawski, Deputy Premier Wladyslaw Homolka and Defense Minister General Michal Rola-Zymierski-Warsaw Poles all. Two days later, Stalin himself signed a 20-year mutual assistance treaty and proclaimed "a radical turning point in the relations between the Soviet Union and Poland . . . a solid foundation for replacing the old unfriendly relations with ties of alliance and friendship...