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Since last fall the Dodgers have acquired: 1) Fireball Pitcher Kirby Higbe, who won 14 games for the tail-end Phillies' last year; 2) onetime Cardinal Mickey Owen, a Grade A catcher; 3) onetime Pirate Paul Waner, seasoned outfielder; 3) Second Baseman Alex Kampouris, who led the International League in home runs last year. Besides, they have mighty Joe Medwick, the slugger whom Boss Larry MacPhail bought for $132,500 last summer, only to have him beaned and made ball-shy for the rest of the season. This spring, comforted by a bean-proof plastic headguard which all Dodgers...
...attempted to make the grade with the United States Marines and in that service would have been able to return to school next fall, but he was turned down several weeks ago because of color-blindness. It is not expected that this handicap will keep him from serving in the regular draftee army...
...consent of the appropriate Department, in any other course, a choice between an hour examination or other appropriate test, to be given after the April recess, and the final examination. The final examination shall be required of any candidate who takes the hour examination but fails to receive a grade of C or higher...
...department worker, drove his twelve-ton street-roller around the curve, headed down toward the busy intersection. As usual, he shoved the gearshift into reverse. But the gears failed to mesh. He set the brakes, but already the twelve tons of steel were rolling, gathering speed down the steep grade toward the jam of cars, busses, children...
...Violinist Eddie South. Of all the performers only three had sponsored berths in radio: Eddie Anderson, the Rochester of the Jack Benny show, Band Leader John Kirby and Comedian Eddie Greene of Duffy's Tavern. Obvious is the reason so few have made the aerial grade: they are Negroes...