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...close to half a million dollars for players. They gave the American Association's Louisville Colonels $75,000 for Infielder Peewee Reese. They gave the St. Louis Cardinals $200,000 for Outfielder Ducky Medwick. Last week, while Rookie Reese was on the side lines with a broken heel bone and Slugger Medwick was hitting like a bush leaguer, Brooklyn fans crammed Ebbets Field to salute the player they consider the most valuable Dodger of the year: Pitcher Freddy Fitzsimmons, a Giant castoff picked up for a song three years...
...Orients left Morro Castle astern, the U. S. delegation of 25 experts, advisers and secretaries relaxed in the comparative comfort of a late afternoon sea breeze. Havana, where other delegations were packing their bags, prepared to resume its midsummer lethargy. Wiry old Cordell Hull, bone-tired but satisfied, relaxed too. If a piece of paper would keep the Americas free, he had the paper...
...convention week, many a pro-Willkie columnist had dropped iffy hesitations, began to clarion that the Party must take Willkie or take a beating. All this was very well for ex-Democrat Willkie; what bred-in-the-bone Republicans wanted was some assurance that he at last was of the true faith. They got their assurance, Wendell Willkie got his accolade from smart, dynamic Helen Reid, whose New York Herald Tribune is a Republican bible. On the convention's fourth day, the Herald Tribune front-paged: "... A man of the people, a Democrat for many years, a Republican...
...endured pain "without a murmur," were "obedient," had "a strange resistance to post-operative infection even in the absence of ... ordinary sanitary precautions," were delighted with any operative results, no matter how gruesome. A man with a balloon-like tumor of the upper jaw had a large wedge of bone cut out. He called for a mirror and "spent most of the day admiring himself...
...among newsmen occurred on a road between Verdun and Paris. An Army truck ran broadside into a press car carrying John Elliott of the New York Herald Tribune, William Henry Chamberlin of the Christian Science Monitor. Elliott was hospitalized with cuts from flying glass, a broken bone in his foot. Chamberlin escaped with a few small cuts...