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...more impressive was Cincinnati's human skeleton, 6 ft.-5 in. Ewell Blackwell. He looked remarkably like the National League's best pitcher, putting the mighty St. Louis Cardinals to bed with only three hits. In the American League, Detroit's curly-haired pride & joy, Lefty Hal Newhouser, began earning his $60,000-a-year salary first 'time out, letting the Browns down with just four hits and no sign...
Those who do good work and make him look good are: J. A. Herlihy, a onetime Navy and airlines pilot, now United's operations manager; Harold Crary, a onetime newspaperman who handles United's advertising, publicity and traffic; Hal E. Nourse, who runs the economics planning section; and Ray Ireland, ex-colonel and deputy chief of staff of the Air Transport Command (he gave Elliott Roosevelt's dog, Blaze, his ill-famed plane ride). Ireland makes the policy decisions when Patterson is not available...
Catcher Cliff Crosby, following close behind his batterymate, Hansen, hammered out three safeties in four times at bat. Johnny Chase singled and doubled in three appearances, while Hal Moffie's double and Myles Huntington's triple rounded out the extra-base hitting...
...Author María-Luísa Bombal, "the grim, documentary type of writing is overdone today. I prefer-what you call-escape." Because escapist literature is Hollywood's meat, her new novel, House of Mist (Farrar Straus, $2.75), was a natural mouthful (at $125,000) for Producer Hal Wallis. Even without book royalties Author Bombal's literary take is tops for a Latin American writer...
Seven Jayvee errors and loose teamplliy made eight of the nine Freshman tallies unearned, although Hal Moffle, Dick Kobuseh, and Myles Huntington each knocked out two hits, with Huntington's double to right-center the only extra-base hit of the game...