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...send a congratulatory wire to a couple of radio comics who had involved him in the plot of a script: so George Burns & Gracie Allen had the Presidential endorsement: "We all enjoyed the show immensely. . . ." Bess Truman and Daughter Margaret won applause from the Chenango Street Methodist Church of Binghamton, N.Y., which paid happy tribute to "the courage that you . . . showed [at a Manhattan banquet] when you ordered orange juice instead of cocktails...
After winning exactly 50 out of 100 races, and $252,996, Old Bones pulled up lame. By now a sentimental trouper, forlorn and desolate at being exiled to Owner Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Binghamton, N.Y. farm, he went off his feed. Then he got a new interest: a pint-sized pony pal named Peanuts II, who could walk under Old Bones' belly. When Peanuts died last year, Exterminator again stopped eating, until his pal's body was left in his stall overnight; they found him kneeling with his head on Peanuts' cold flank...
...eight years since he started climbing up the Yankee chain, Tommy Holmes had worked hard to reach his present peak. As a pesky wrist-hitter, who specialized in poking the ball to left field (mostly singles), he had a five-year average of .329 with Norfolk, Binghamton and Newark. Then the Yankees sold him to Boston. There he learned to pull the ball, spent hours trying to hit a roll of tarpaulin along the right field foul line. When the right-field fence at Braves Field was shortened, he learned to, swing for distance...
Died. William Eugene ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, 82, genial, world-famed prohibition zealot; of a bladder ailment; in Binghamton, N.Y. No fainthearted saint, Boozebuster Johnson admittedly lied, bribed, even downed drinks to pile up evidence against the Demon Rum. Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to combat bootlegging in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), he got 4,400 convictions, lost five deputies, shot. On a teetotaling world tour in 1919, he cheerfully lost an eye but won admirers in a free-for-all slugfest with unregenerate London tipplers. Quiescent since 1929, Crusader Johnson once confessed: "The more I talked, the wetter the country...
When last week's cold wave sent temperatures to 18° below zero at Portland, Me., to 16° below at Binghamton, N.Y., the Association of American Railroads decided it was time for drastic action. With the approval of the Office of Defense Transportation, A.A.R. clamped a tight three-day embargo on all non-Government freight moving east of Lake Michigan and north of the Chesapeake and Ohio lines in Virginia...