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...develop some big league baseball players who aren't from the corn country or the south, landed is Briggs Cage Saturday and dropped a few hints to the assembled mob of high school coaches, H.A.A. moguls and passers-by on the care and feeding of future stars. The upshot of the session was the startling intelligence that each ballplayer is an individual problem and must be treated as such by his coach...
...Upshot of the Bevin-Hoffman talks was that preparations for dismantlement would continue, but that actual removals would cease until a U.S. committee of experts had examined the case of each plant with this question in mind: Will it contribute most to EGA if left here or if taken elsewhere? Mr. Hoffman mentioned the case of a plant making cuckoo clocks. "Personally, I'm in favor of letting the Germans make cuckoo clocks...
...visit to the victim's father. The effect on Harron is to make him see that he must return to his estranged wife. ¶ Fan French, an idle Westchester matron, is thrilled to realize that she had been accosted by the murderer before the crime. The upshot for her: unsatisfactory adultery with a radio announcer. ¶A young, mentally unbalanced, would-be writer is stimulated by the newspaper stories to desire to duplicate the crime. ¶ A little Manhattan girl, her imagination fired, falsely accuses an innocent tailor of molesting...
...upshot: a resolution in which the painters accused themselves of possessing a "spirit of decadence and bourgeois estheticism." All promised to reform...
...that the Marshall Plan would fix up everything, had trouble focusing their minds on this distant crisis. The President was sunning himself at Key West. State Department officials said they had known all along that it was going to happen; they were only surprised by its suddenness. But the upshot of the matter was just what it was nine years ago. Czechoslovakia had fallen-this time to Stalin...