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...Miller fans remembered Tex Beneke best as the whiny-voiced singer of Chattanooga Choo Choo and My Melancholy Baby, or as a hard-riding tenor-sax soloist. Miller helped set up other friends, e.g., Charlie Spivak and Hal Mclntyre, with bands of their own, but Tex didn't want the responsibility. Now, when bands and nightclubs were dropping like overripe apples in a high wind, Tex keeps a payroll of more than 40 busy at a weekly overhead of $9,200. He is making no fortune at it, but a new radio contract with Miller's old sponsor...
...Died. Hal ("Prince Hal") Chase, 64, one of the greatest first basemen (New York Giants and Yankees) in baseball History until 1919, when unproved charges of gambling began to crowd him out of major-league baseball; of heart and kidney ailments; in Coluso, Calif...
...part of Falstaff is to be played by Jerome T. Kilty '50, president of the Workshop. Naomi Raphaelson is cast as Mistress Quickly. The part of Prince Hal is not yet cast. While most of the casting is completed, additional small parts will be filled when the organization returns next September, Kilty said...
...ball-carrying unit will be at least the equal of last fall's eleven. Chip Gannon, he of runs to the left, made ground every time he took the ball, and there is little doubt that he will be starting wingback come the fall. Freshmen Jim Kenary and Hal Moffle looked to be the best of the tailbacks although plenty of other talent turned up at this position...
...both had a rough time of it as these pictures show. At Chicago's Wrigley Field (left), Cincinnati's Ray Lammano ran into the Cubs' Don Johnson and practically carried him on his back, thereby keeping Johnson from completing a double play. At Yankee Stadium (right), Hal Wagner of the Boston Red Sox made it. Hit on the head with a baseball, he was knocked out temporarily, and but for Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto's frantic leap might have been spiked...