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CHICAGO baseball fans, who have hoped in vain for an American League pennant since the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, have learned to endure an annual disappointment: watching the White Sox get off to a fast start, then fall in a "June Swoon." This year the Sox raced into June as if they really mean to run all the way. One big difference is a scrappy, tobacco-chewing little second baseman named Jacob Nelson Fox. See SPORT, Nellie's Needle...
...shocked and horrified by the statement you attributed to me in your John McClellan story. I do not use the Lord's name in vain...
...Crimson beat Brandeis 27 to 8 in a three-ring circus that saw six pitchers, including a major portion of the Brandeis outfield, parade across the mound in a vain attempt to control a 20-hit Harvard attack which included four home runs, a triple, and three doubles. It was often entertaining. But with the fine Holy Cross game only a day in the past, one had trouble calling it baseball...
...Vain Appeal. Labor's doubts and fears were shared last week by troubled men all the way from Hamburg to Hiroshima. Unlike George Brown, the Japanese, who live relatively close (4,700 miles) to Britain's Christmas Island testing area were entirely confident that they knew what the British were doing. Declaring that the test would pollute Japan's Pacific fishing grounds, the Japan Council Against Atom and Hydrogen Bombs noisily formulated plans to send a "peace fleet" into the 750,000 square miles of ocean which Britain has declared off limits to shipping between March...
...home run in the sixth. Hathaway's blast was a hard line drive far over the rightfielder's head. Jim Shue's triple, a walk, and a single by pitcher Prescott brought in the final two runs in the eighth. In all, Westover used five pitchers in a vain attempt to stop the Crimson...