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...children on its back. Helle fell off and was drowned (hence the Hellespont, now the Dardanelles), but Phryxus reached the eastern shore of the Black Sea. He ungratefully sacrificed the ram to Zeus and gave its fleece to the King of Colchis, who put it in a sacred grove guarded by a dragon...
...national magazines would be clamoring for pictures). Then there was the housing problem. The studio took care of that. By the greatest good fortune, Screenwriter Casey Robinson (noblesse oblige) had made his Pacific Palisades house available, a charming English-type cottage spang in the middle of an orange grove. This was a great load off Deborah's and Tony's mind (L.B. believes that a good star is a happy star...
Last week, the Hall's electorate - 161 U.S. baseball writers - added four more names to the 49 on the plaques. All the new choices were living men (and all in their 40s). The four: ¶ Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove, 46, taciturn and angular, one of baseball's greatest southpaws. His equipment: control and a fireball exceeded only by the late Walter Johnson's. He won exactly 300 games (31 in his best year with the Athletics), quit baseball five years ago. Present occupation: running a combination poolroom and bowling alley at Lonaconing...
...Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 43, sparkplug catcher of Connie Mack's great Athletics of the late '20s and Lefty Grove's battery mate. His lifetime batting average: a hefty .320. After managing Detroit for 4½ seasons (and spoiling his health and cheery disposition), he forsook baseball in 1938, is now working for a rubber company in Montana. ¶ Carl ("Meal Ticket") Hubbell, 43, the great "clutch" pitcher (he always won in a pinch). Lean and emotionless, he seldom used more stuff than he needed to get his man, seldom tried for strike-out records...
They had another report, signed by four Republican members of the War Investigating Committee, which charged that Bilbo had accepted gratuities possibly amounting to as much as $88,000 from Mississippi contractors who obtained Government war work; that he had collected funds from war contractors for the Juniper Grove Baptist Church. The Senators also noted the charge that he had accepted $1,500 to help a drug addict get a narcotics permit...