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...BOB DE LANY Boston, Mass...
...182Eighteen-year-old Bob Feller, famed Cleveland pitcher: his fourth baseball game of the season; against the fourth-place Boston Red Sox; in which he struck out 16 batters, one less than the modern major-league record he shares with Dizzy Dean; at Cleveland. This is the second time within a year that young Feller, whose arm has been ailing all summer, has equalled or broken the American League strikeout record of 16, set by Rube Waddell 29 years...
...years ago Dick Harlow was called up from Western Maryland to take charge of Crimson football. He was met by a team demoralized by past seasons, timid of the coming season. Whatever spirit there was was dispelled when Bob Haley, the captain, was put off the team on technical charges of professionalism...
...line Bob Green, Gibby Winter, and Red Daughters will divide the end posts between them. Alex Kevorkian, mentioned on several all-American teams, will hold down one tackle position. The other may be taken over by Joe Nee who played guard last year most of the time, or possibly by Wilson. That leaves Booth as a substitute tackle. Captain Russ Allen will have things his own way as one guard leaving the other for either Nee or Boston...
Words spoken by Franklin D. Roosevelt last January ironically contributed to Bob Wagner's last ignominy. Hadn't the President plugged for consolidation of independent agencies as part of his Reorganization Plan? Yes, thought the Senate, and placed Bob Wagner's potent, three-man U. S. Housing Authority not in a separate agency but under the thumb of Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Thus altered, Bob Wagner's Housing Bill, which now looked as though it would never provide houses for any New Yorkers, was tossed into the lap of the House...