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Spectacled, scholarly looking Pitcher Jim Konstanty never had the mow-'emdown speed of Dizzy Dean nor the big sweeping curve of Lefty Grove. This year he never so much as started a game for the Phillies until the World Series came along, and he lost that in a 1-0 heartbreaker. But last week big Righthander Konstanty was voted the Most Valuable Player in the National League...
Philadelphia Athletics fans have long lived on their memories of Connie Mack's last great teams, the American League pennant winners of '29, '30 and '31. "Lefty" Grove and Righthander George Earnshaw pitched to Mickey Cochrane; Al Simmons ranged in left field, batted with his foot awkwardly in the bucket and was always over .300. Slugging Jimmy Foxx covered first base, and bustling over the rest of the infield, playing where he was needed most, was hustling Jimmy Dykes, a crack utility man and Connie Mack's favorite performer...
...handle an ordinary disaster like the Coconut Grove fire, which killed 500 people, by command coring every telephone in the block, but today when a single bomb will knock out the communication facilities of an entire city, I need plenty of workers to clear the debris, for rescue work, and to run messages. Here, Harvard students should contribute most...
Under BBC's wing, television got off to a world head start in 1930. But British TV screens went blank during the war and the U.S. has since taken an overwhelming quantitative lead. From its studios in London's Alexandra Palace and Lime Grove, BBC today telecasts over a single channel to Britain's 450.000 TV sets. Each morning there is an hour-long demonstration film so that TV dealers will have something to show prospective buyers. In the afternoon, there is either a good British or French movie or a women's program containing news...
...Wind. It was an ill wind, in fact a hurricane, which blew Ottinger into the plywood business. Part of his father's $100,000 had been used to buy a big grove of gum trees near Corbin, La., in an experiment to dye living trees to make the wood look like mahogany. The experiment worked but nobody wanted to buy the wood, so Ottinger lost his shirt. When a hurricane blew down so many nearby oak trees that Ottinger got them just for hauling them away, he found himself in the lumber business. He became such a lumber expert...