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...Saturday in Gotham: Dropped over to Commodore Music Shop to protest the issuing of "Mop Mop" and picked up some new dises ... Best of these were "Clarinet Marmalade" with Bill Davison, Ed Hall, and Brunies; "Squeeze Me" by Yank Lawson, Miff Mole, and Cless; and the same tune recorded by Cliff Jackson, and Pee Wee ... For lovers of boogie there is a new "Streamlino Train" by Cripple Clarence Lofton on Session label ... Next to Condon's Town Hall broadcast featuring excellent Butterfield, Kaminsky, Mole, and Muggsy along with poor Krupa and indifferent Haggart ... Saw Haggart in the bar next door...
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...drop a hint on pitching motion to Elmer Riddle, which Kirby thinks was "the turning point in Elmer's career." These are a few of the diamond personalities which the Radar School's athletic director has met, and he is a good friend of Bob Feller, Pepper Martin. Yank Terry, Cliff Melton and others. "Martin wants to buy my bird-dog, but I won't let him have...
...biggest thrill," said our affable southerner, "came when I hit my first major league homer off Yank Terry in Boston. There was one man on, and that won the ball game." "Crash" will also mention with pleasure his three hits off Ruffing in the opener of the '41 season at the Yankee Stadium...
Solemn-faced Yank infantrymen in Normandy looked up in astonishment as a wide-smiling officer leaned out of a speeding jeep and waved. The doughboys did not know whether to wave back, salute, or just yell; some contrived to do all three. They looked at one another and grinned: "The Old Man himself...