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...Only change in the lineup that won the pennant for Washington last year was at right field, Jonathan Stone for old Goose Goslin. The Yankees had two rookie infielders. Babe Ruth planned, in what will doubtless be his last playing season, to make his 700th homerun, get his 2,000th base on balls. Manager Joe Cronin of Washington called Detroit the team to beat. Detroit's new Manager & Catcher Mickey Cochrane, bought for $100,000 from Philadelphia, was not so sure. He and his men lost two games in a row to the Athletics, generally dismantled last autumn because...
...Manhattan, Joseph Ferdinand Gould (Harvard, 1911) celebrated the writing of the 7,300,000th word in his uncompleted book. Oral History of Our Times. Said Writer Gould: "I have used no printed material. I have been at work on it for 15 years and everything in it was transmitted to me by word of mouth. . . . My chapter on freedom and insanity is one of the best. It ends with this sentence: 'I have a delusion of grandeur; I believe myself to be Joe Gould...
...into New Hampshire and Vermont. The difficulty of surface travel made air service logical, but would there be enough patronage? National Airways hit upon a simple scheme. Let local boosters prove the public demand by selling 1,000 tickets in advance. No tickets, no airline. Last week the 1,000th ticket was sold, airplanes flew between Boston, Concord, White River, Vt., Montpelier and Barre...
Beauty To International Beauty Shop Owners convening in Manhattan were exhibited these detachable gadgets: colored fingernails which can be shaped & filed; gold-plated nose-shapers, worn inside, to make straight noses saucy; lip covers 1 100,000th of an inch thick; courtplaster tacks to pin back jutting ears; hats with curls of real hair dangling from the back...
...When Dr. Lark-Horovitz adds energy to the copper plate by heating it, electrons jump from one energy level to another in the copper atoms, and the "pickets" in the x-ray picture shift a perceptible distance. Dr. Lark-Horovitz calculates the intra-atomic movements at one 200,000,000th part of an inch...