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...crowd, witnessing the Cardinals' victory, came to cheer Dizzy Dean, greatest pitcher in Gardinal history, in a game that was expected to decide the fate of the pennant...
...figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth is typically Robinsonian: a shadow masque seen through a glass darkly, by a keen but puzzled...
...John Barrow's The Mutiny of the Bounty. Thousands of U. S. readers who never heard of Sir John Barrow have pored over Nordhoff & Hall's rewriting of the story (Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea), are looking forward to their final instalment on the fate of the mutineers who settled Pitcairn Island...
...eyes of the football world will be on the fate of the Crimson team this fall since this new coaching staff, one of the youngest groups in the country has brok- on the tradition for the first time by being made up of outsiders with the exception of Head Coach Casey...
Back East once more with another job, Slim, now a seasoned lineman, finds his toughest assignment while Red meets the fate of many another good lineman while working with "hot" wire. Brokenhearted, Slim shelves construction for work on an electric railroad. The depression comes. Construction ceases and maintenance is cut to the minimum. Slim, during one of his periodic spells in the hospital, has fallen in love with his nurse. But when she tries to get him to take a softer job, he rebels. Even out of work Slim remains the heroic lineman. They would need him, he figures, even...