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Besides Mrs. Attlee, the Institute's opening ceremonies included a speech by one Mrs. W. Wakefield, billed as "a mistress who has never had any servant troubles." Mrs. Wakefield divulged part of the secret of her success: "I have always encouraged my girls to bring their boy friends home. I like them to do their courting under my roof...
...this first drawing for rooms, only those living farthest away--probably from Wakefield, Milton, Quincy, and possibly Lexington--will be considered. Watson's office will work on the outer fringes first, and later allocate rooms to men living near Cambridge...
...spring training's halfway point, most of the wartimers were going down, the oldtimers were coming up; and a half dozen flashy rookies were having both ups & downs. One little slip by any one of the trio of Wakefield, Mullin and McCosky. and a well-muscled youngster named Hoot Evers* would make Detroit's outfield. (But Evers himself slipped this week, fractured his ankle, will be out for about eight weeks.) Dick Sisler, who hits the ball farther but not as often as his famous father, was trying to catch the Cardinals' Ray Sanders off first base...
...Only three of his wartime-style regulars -Newhouser, Trout and Greenberg (a better first baseman than outfielder) -could be sure of 1946 jobs. Probable 1946 lineup: Outfielders Dick Wakefield, Barney McCosky, Pat Mullin; Hank Greenberg 1b, Anse Moore 2b, Billy Hitchcock ss, Pinky Higgins 3b; Birdie Tebbetts...
...last home-front job for a long time. One day in 1942 he had a 6 o'clock cocktail date with his wife. A few minutes before 6 he got a telephone summons from the Navy. Sullivan rushed off, learned that his assignment was to salvage the U.S.S. Wakefield, then burning off the Newfoundland coast. He flew to the ship, took her in to a beach he had picked out from the plane, later brought the Wakefield home. Mrs. Sullivan, whom he stood up that evening in New York, has seen him only three days since...