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...Gibraltar, thought of ordering its skipper to do just that-shut off all radio communication, black out and try to slip through. Such an incident might easily transcend the adventure of the City of Flint, the U. S. freighter which was captured by the Germans, detained by the Russians, freed by the Norwegians and returned to Baltimore last week under its own flag...
Snowy old Judge Landis hates the farm system. His office mail is packed with squawks about it from players. Two years ago he freed 100 players from the St. Louis Cardinals' farms. Last year he got wind of irregularities in the Detroit Tigers' farm lands. Last week the roughshod way Judge Landis rode over Detroit's farm system was the talk of baseball...
...freed 91 players, four of them brought up from the farms to Detroit's own roster, the rest secretly kept in "cold storage" on bush-league teams from Shreveport to Seattle. Detroit had prized this buried talent at something like $500,000. Beyond this paper loss, it had to shell out some $50,000 in adjustments. One team with which Detroit had a secret deal, Hot Springs in the Cotton States League, found itself with only one player after the great emancipation...
...freighter City of Flint, tempest teapot of the war's sixth week, when she was taken captive by Germany, later freed from a Nazi prize crew by Norway, sailed at last out of Narvik for home with a cargo of iron ore. Leaving the harbor in a fog, she whanged into a British freighter, had to put back to repair damaged plates...
...Actress Mackaye's career was not ended at that moment, it was when she served ten months in jail for withholding evidence about the killing. Kelly served 25 months for manslaughter. Freed, exActress Mackaye married Cinemactor Paul Kelly, who is still making pictures...