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...since Lefty Grove led Connie Mack's last great Philadelphia team to the 1931 pennant has an American League pitcher won 30 games in a season. Last week, with 1946 baseball at the three-quarter mark, the goal of all major-league pitchers was within the reach of not one, but three pitchers...
...Pittsburgh, Paramount employes sought a picnic place in South Park, were offered choice Warner Grove, indignantly refused, took Monongahela Grove instead...
...treatment brings together what has been learned from such disasters as Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire and from wartime experience with men burned aboard ships and planes. It was described in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics by Dr. Robert Elman, husky, 49-year-old surgery professor in Washington University's Medical School, St. Louis...
...lighten the load of parents beset with the one-track vagaries of small boydom. Wrote one of them to us recently, in some desperation: "I have a ten-year-old son who (collects) military insignia. . . . For the past six months our name has been a byword in Downers Grove (Ill.). People start suddenly and streak for home when they see any of us approaching. No one is safe from our friendly, but firm, tug on the sleeve and an insinuating voice saying, 'That's a nice patch you're wearing; have you a spare...
...join Vincent Lopez' orchestra. ("It was tough. I had never been in a dance hall in my life. I had lots to unlearn about music.") He soon unlearned enough to collect six Spanish musicians and book himself as a relief band in Los Angeles' gaudy Cocoanut Grove. Bashful couples were afraid of his Latin rhythms, so he hired a half-dozen tango experts to whirl unescorted ladies around the floor ("If women learned, their boy friends naturally had to do something about...