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...years of big-league baseball, he averaged .358 at bat-an average topped only by Ty Cobb's .367 (for 24 years...
...remarkable first novel came out of the South this week, and the Jeeter Lesters, Ty Waldens, Snopes and Joads moved over to make room for a new family of U.S. literary Kallikaks - the Taylors. Its author: John Faulkner, younger brother of William Faulkner (Sanctuary and eleven other novels). The story: how the Taylors and their neighbors exchanged the certain poverty of sharecropping in Mississippi for the uncertainties of city life...
...years of baseball, few feats have caused such nationwide todo. Ever since it became apparent that the big Italian from San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf was approaching a record that had eluded Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and other great batsmen, Big Joe's hits have been the biggest news in U.S. sport. Radio programs were interrupted for Di Maggio bulletins. Crowds jammed the ball parks where he played. Three days before, when he broke the modern record of 41, set by George Sisler in 1922, 31,000 parboiled fans crammed into Washington...
Defeated by only 11 votes out of 171 cast was a minority report characterizing the Guild Reporter as "concerned definitely with the promulgation of Communist Par ty line." By only 12 votes was Executive Vice President Milton Kaufman saved from having to apologize to U.A.W. President Thomas for butting into the North American strike. By only 10¼ votes was the Kaufman-Einhorn-Pasche machine allowed to stay in office...
...better ballplayer-Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth? To settle that question the two Immortals themselves, Cobb, who retired in 1928, and Ruth, who retired in 1935, last week met on a golf course...