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Gradually, supply caught up with demand. Today the college, with headquarters in Heidelberg, has more than 100 instructors, who travel as far afield as Eritrea, teaching a five-term schedule. (The Army and Air Force pay three-quarters of military students' fees, provide classrooms, handle registration and collect fees...
...with Williams, Vern Stephens, and Billy Goodman, the league batting champion. The team is better off this year in "bench" (i.e., reserve) infield strength supplied by Lou Boudreau, deposed Cleveland manager. Day after day, playing where he is needed most, Boudreau has sparked the Red Sox at bat and afield...
...Braves are slow afield and on the base paths. Two good hitters, Bob Elliott and Sid Gordon, and three good pitchers, Warren Spahn, John Sain, and Vern Bickford should keep them in the first division...
While Rizzuto was reveling in his new role as a menace at the plate he was doing pretty well afield too. In one stretch of 59 games he handled 288 consecutive chances without an error, an American League record.* Little Phil was the only man durable enough (and irreplaceable enough) to play in every one of his team's games. More than any other player, he sparked the Yankees to their 1950 World Championship...
...text the state of the world and what it means as a challenge to this new generation. Really when you talk of the East West split, or the threat of new ideologies to our traditional way of life, it is all entirely relevant but just a little far afield...