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...money, the Cards have picked up the Yankees' aging (34) Vic Raschi to beef up a pitching staff weakened by the loss (to the Army), of Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell. They have a 25-year-old, $100,000 shortstop named Alex Grammas, out of Kansas City in Class AAA, who should give Regular Solly Hemus a run for his position. For another $100,000 they have hard-hitting Tom Alston, a first baseman and the first Negro on the Cardinal roster. And they have an impressive list of seasoned money players: Outfielder Enos Slaughter, Second Baseman Red Schoendienst...
DILLON S. MYER resigned as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. An agronomist for state governments and colleges in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. Myer went to Washington in 1934, serving with the AAA and then the Soil Conservation Service. After Pearl Harbor, he was given the tough chore of relocating West Coast Japanese. In 1946 he became Public Housing Commissioner, and in 1950 he took over the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs...
...role of petty raconteur, and concentrates on the Governor's record in state politics. Where Busch rambles on about boyhood trips to Europe and childhood experience, Martin sticks closely to public administration. I am bound to say, though, that Martin includes nothing on Stevenson's work in the AAA, the Navy Department, and the State Department, important and impressive parts of the Governor's career...
Baseball's high-priced bonus player is as often as not a disappointing flop. Two current examples: Pittsburgh's Pitcher Paul Pettit ($100,000), now laboring for his fourth minor-league club, the Hollywood (class AAA) Stars, and Cleveland's Pitcher Billy Joe Davidson (more than $100,000), who has yet to show much of anything in the Class B Tri-State League. In Brooklyn last week, Dodger fans were happily pointing to a less expensive ($22,000) exception: Righthander Billy Loes (rhymes with throws), a good-looking 22-year-old who did his schoolboy pitching right...
Open Break. Weyl lost contact with the cell in mid-1934, he told the committee, after persuading Harold Ware to allow him to give up his AAA job. For a while Weyl went to the Middle West as an organizer for the Communist United Farmers League, then turned principally to writing and speechmaking. He broke openly with the party at the time of the Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939, "culminating a period of doubt and indecision." But not until the outbreak of the Korean war (five months after Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury in his second trial) did Weyl...