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...late '20s, with a team that included such superlative players as Al Simmons, Lefty Grove, Jimmy Foxx and Mickey Cochrane, Mr. Mack worked his way back toward the top. In '29, '30 and '31 he won his last three pennants. This time the Depression forced him to break up his team. Not until 1948 did the hapless A's get back in the first division. By then, even Mr. Mack's players paid less and less attention to his frantic scorecard signals; Al Simmons called most of the plays from his third-base coaching...
Many a Bible Belt church found itself in a strange position this Christmas season: it was running out of poor. ¶In his little Oak Grove Baptist Church near Springfield, Tenn., the Rev. John Richard Christian found little use for the $40 he had raised for Christmas giving, in the end, used it for such charity as presents for shut-ins (though not necessarily poor ones...
...From Grove to Atom. Roy Collins, a middle-of-the-road Democrat who presides over this most active and restless of states, is one of the most interesting and effective governors in the U.S. today. He has his roots deep in the restful Old South. Although he is only 46, he grew up in a Florida as different from today's as the pinewoods around his native Tallahassee are from the palmy patios of the Miami Beach hotels. The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through...
Neither he nor Florida has left all that behind. The new Florida exists around, inside, over and under the old. Roy Collins these days walks to the governor's office from a stately old Tallahassee home, "The Grove," that has been in his wife's family for five generations; it was built in the 18205 by Governor Richard Keith Call, twice the territorial governor of Florida, the great-grandfather of the present governor's lady, Mary Call Darby Collins...
...lunched at the Grove, commiserated with his five-year-old daughter Darby over the illness of a doll, went to his office, where he found the press demanding a comment on Adlai Stevenson's visit to Florida. Said Collins: "I am not endorsing any Democratic candidate, as you know, but if you were to ask me who the next President of the U.S. was going to be, I'd answer: Mr. Stevenson...