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Somewhere between the apparently lofty principles of the Lowells and the palpably selfish sentiments of the Mokarskys come the reasons and excuses of thousands of draft dodgers. Most of them, according to the FBI, are guilty mainly of carelessness and ignorance. Even with far more men drafted, this war'...
Divorced. Leo Ernest ("Lippy") Durocher, 37, resonant manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers; by Grace Loretta Dozier Durocher (Dress Designer "Carol King"), 40; after nine years of marriage (his first, her second); in St. Louis. She said that The Lip was "constantly of a nagging disposition," asked no alimony.
But it was Betty Smith's marriage to Private Jones (first name: Joe) that finally brought about the impossible and gave a book about Brooklyn more newspaper space than the Dodgers. When Betty Smith was living in Chapel Hill, N.C., turning out unsalable one-act plays and reading the...
No Illusions, Some Signs. Branch Rickey looks like Lionel Barrymore playing Thaddeus Stevens, talks like an evangelist in a voice that exploits the whisper as aptly as the roar. When he left his world-champion St. Louis Cardinals to take the Brooklyn job, he was in his right mind. One...
Hermanski, Olmo and Schultz fitted the bill. Although the Dodgers continued to lose more games than they won, the newcomers more than upheld their end of the show. This earned Branch Rickey no vote of confidence from the Brooklyn skeptics. Baseball fans, like military armchair strategists, are impatient for quick...