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...Braves reacted like a bunch of summer-stock actors hitting Broadway; they played over their heads. But this week, as the Braves came home to the wide-open arms of Milwaukee after winning 15 of 21 games on the road, they were still running neck and neck with the Brooklyn Dodgers for the league lead. And National League fans were not so sure that the Braves were playing over their heads after...
...like the others, should have been routed through his office, but he didn't even hear of it until he became attorney general six years later. Said McGranery: "You can't have secrets and dispense justice behind closed doors in our system. It must be done in wide-open spaces . . . I say to you gentlemen that you cannot dismiss matters under these circumstances without leaving real suspicion, and cause and reason for that suspicion...
...recent years for freewheeling vice, gambling, prostitution and illegal liquor traffic. The Galveston papers, the morning News (circ. 17,510) and evening Tribune (circ. 11,909), both owned by 87-year-old Financier W. L. Moody Jr., do not get excited about it. They take the view that the wide-open situation is what Galveston wants; any change should come at the polls, not through their crusading. But their little brother and Galveston County neighbor, the Texas City Sun (circ. 4,573), which is also owned by Moody, had a different view of things. Sun Editor Clyde Byron Ragsdale...
...abandoned. The French pulled back into Nasan 117 miles west of Hanoi, the only remaining bastion of the Black River defense line. An airlift (a plane every 15 minutes) was bringing reinforcements into Nasan and flying out thousands of Sonla's refugees. Situated in a wide-open plateau, rare in that country, Nasan, with its fortified air strip and embrasured artillery, dug in for a spiky hedgehog battle...
Davidson's presumptuous Wildcats took the field in brilliant crimson-and-white uniforms and promptly shook the complacency out of the 6,500 spectators at the Stadium. Rated five-touchdown underdogs, the Southern eleven flashed a wide-open offensive game that left the startled Crimson six points behind at half-time and conjured memories of the Praying Colonels of Centre College, who upset a powerful 1921 Harvard eleven...