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...Chicago. But Larry MacPhail, who excludes the word "impossible" from his bulging vocabulary, had already decided to shake up his slumping club. Last week, neatly finessing waiver difficulties, he sold high-paid ($17,500 a year) Pitcher Hank Borowy (won 10, lost 5) to the National League-leading Chicago Cubs...
When they finally find each other again, there is no question about it: they are going to get married. All afternoon, working against the city's implacably ticking clocks, they fight their way through the cruel bureaucratic mazes of getting a blood test, a license, a waiver of the 72 hours' invalidity. They tear in just under the wire for a grimy little civil ceremony that is shattered to bits by the passage of elevated trains. There follows a beautiful, bleak scene in an off-hours lunchroom where a munching stranger at the next table looks...
Permanent Waiver. In Kansas City, Nellie Wells, 15, told police she was through with her 18-year-old fiancé, who won her heart, borrowed her purse (with $120 in it), left her high & dry in a beauty parlor having her hair fixed for the wedding...
...first, Dodger fans could not see the new wood for the trees sold down the river. Idolized Camilli, sacked, quit baseball for good. Onetime great hitter Medwick, sold at the waiver price, was blasting base knocks for the rival New York Giants. Heady from two champagne years, Brooklynites were tasting punctured seltzer water. Brooklyn's erstwhile rabid rooters felt that it was Rickey who had left the cap off. They needed more than two hands to catalog his infamies and betrayals. Bleachers were full of "Down with Rickey" signs...
...Freshmen, long barred from competing for the Crimson before their first hour exams, may now come out for the SERVICE NEWS, thanks to a special Dean's Office waiver of the old rule. The competition will thus b e open to every civilian and V-12 undergraduate in the College...