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These officers and men of the Merchant Marine are exposed to the longest looks and widest public freeze when the subject of recruitment is aired. Just where were the draft-dodgers? Some 25 per cent of the men were 4-F, or over or under service ago. Another 30 per...
¶ Welcomed tall, sad-looking W. Averell Harriman to his Cabinet, kidded him about his favorite ball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, losing the pennant to Missourian Truman's favorite, the St. Louis Cardinals.
U.S. eyes moved back & forth like those of spectators at a tennis match. Afternoons, they focused on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field; evenings, on St. Louis' Sportsman's Park. Home and office radios blared play-by-play descriptions; earnest discussions went on at every street corner and water...
Boston's Mort Cooper, onetime St. Louis standby, shut out the Dodgers, 4-0. Just before that Brooklyn agony was over, an incongruous cheer went up. The Ebbets Field fans, many of them armed with portable radios to keep track of enemy operations, had heard that the Cubs had...
Five in Ten? The wonder was that either team was even a pennant contender. The Dodgers did not have a single 20-game-winning pitcher; the Cards had one, Howie Pollet. The Dodgers had two regular .300 hitters (Dixie Walker, Augie Galan); the Cards had three, including League-Leader Stan...