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...Braves are slow afield and on the base paths. Two good hitters, Bob Elliott and Sid Gordon, and three good pitchers, Warren Spahn, John Sain, and Vern Bickford should keep them in the first division...
...Ellenton, S.C., Redbook Magazine Staffers Ike Vern and Booton Herndon were mobbed and beaten up when they attempted to photograph churchgoers leaving a Sunday-morning service. Vern and Herndon were doing a story on Ellenton's mass evacuation to make way for a hydrogen-bomb plant (TiME, Dec. 11). Explained Ellenton Police Chief John E. Steed: since being told they would have to move, "some people have been confused and hardly responsible for their actions...
...highlights of the trip was Bloomfield, Iowa (pop. 2,732). Mayor Vern L. Smith proclaimed a "Hildegarde Day," and stores were closed and schools let out; between halves of the Bloomfield-Milan (Mo.) football game the Bloomfield band formed an "H" on the field. In Grand Forks, N.Dak., where she arrived in the midst of the potato-digging season, she was honored with a peck of spuds...
...Vern Drehmel added a kick to his 11 previous scores (12. counting a disputed Princeton goal) to put the visitors ahead by tow in the second period. The first there came when Captain Ted Welf out in from left wing and slimed in a rebound on a blocked shot of Drehmel...
Captain Ted Wolf, Vern Drehmel, and All-American Charlie Weiss again will fill the left wing, center forward, and right inside positions. Left to right, Pants Pantalconi, Ben Florin, and Bob Harding will make up the halfback line while Humph Doermann and Charlie Ufford fill the fullback slots...