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...ever heard of and makes stars of them; he sells established stars to other clubs for huge sums and laughs when the stars fail to come through for their new owners. To the fury of the St. Louis fans, he sold his great pitcher, Dizzy Dean, to the Chicago Cubs for a reported $185,000, and in three years as a Cub the Dizzier won only 16 games. At swapping, selling or developing that strange commodity, ballplayers, Branch Rickey is without a peer...
...World-Telegram. Assigned in the early '30s to cover a basketball game in Manhattan College's minuscule gym, he found the doors locked when he got there and such a crowd outside he couldn't even get to the doors to pound. Filled with a cub's do-or-die spirit, he climbed through a window and tore his pants. That clinched it. Why shouldn't basketball get a better break...
...what shapes up as the best Harvard-Yale Freshman hockey game in recent years, the undefeated but tied Yardling sextet takes on an Eli Cub team with a record exactly similar to its own at New Haven today...
...Revolution). Harold went to the University of Chicago, became campus correspondent for the Chicago Record, graduated, went to work as a reporter on space rates, some weeks earning as much as 75?. Just as the ax was about to fall, he came on the dream of a cub reporter: a big scoop. Chicago newspapers had been looking for a missing Mamie Doane for weeks. Returning from the morgue one day, where he had inspected a drowned possible Mamie, young Harold had a bright idea: why not call on the Doanes? Mrs. Doane greeted him: "Come in, young man. Mamie just...
Cafe society's Patricia Anne ("Honeychile") Wilder went bankrupt for $8,212.24-mostly clothes and a $600 phone bill. ≤≤ Tallulah Bankhead took her lion cub to the zoo for a publicity shot, got bitten by a chimpanzee...