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...Newcombe, working with only two days of rest following his five hour, rain-interrupted pitching chore in Pittsburgh Sunday, was not quite up to it. He had to be excused at the end of five innings, trailing 4-2, after having been bashed for five of Philadelphia's 10 hits...
...Democratic state central committee of Illinois met in Springfield one day last week to perform an embarrassing chore. Their problem, as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley put it, was to choose in "open and free balloting" a substitute for Cook County Treasurer Herbert C. Paschen, who stepped out of the race for governor two weeks ago, after disclosures that a $29,000 employees' "welfare fund" administered by his office had been used for political purposes (TIME, Sept...
...chairman of the Democratic convention platform committee: Massachusetts' John W. McCormack, 64. House Majority Leader McCormack, who is, as National Chairman Butler put it, "widely respected both on Capitol Hill and throughout the country for his fairness and understanding," tackled the same chairmanship in 1952. His most ticklish chore this year: steering his committee through to an acceptable civil-rights plank...
Operation of the great park domain, scattered from the West Indies to Alaska and from Maine to Hawaii, is a housekeeping chore of prodigious proportions. The understaffed, overworked Park Service must serve 50 to 60 million tourists a year with facilities set up to handle no more than half that number...
...work for Paper-Mate is to be somebody. After work, in a tableau like a scene from Carmen, the girl penmakers, dressed in factory-provided blue smocks, parade their status through the streets. Drawing a sharp contrast with the old way, sheepish cane cutters often perform the unmanly chore of bringing lunchboxes to their working wives at the plant...