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...fake . . . not a fraud." It was, he added with a straight face, just a happy answer to a problem of "space limitation." Assistant Managing Editor Garvin E. Tankersley, who had ordered the composite made, acknowledged that he was trying to "show that Mr. Tydings did treat Mr. Browder with kid gloves." Asked Oklahoma's Senator Mike Monroney: "You see nothing wrong in the composite?" Said Tankersley...
McInnis points to a young catcher who is handling one of the practices with maturity and smoothness. "Kid from Natick High," he explains. "He's going to be a pretty good ballplayer. Ernie Soucy (a former Harvard football star) sends him over from Natick. We've got to be nice to these kids. I think he's coming to Harvard next year...
When the sun is out in the early afternoon it gets very hot in the cage. One of the players-sweating off weight in a rubber suit under his blue-sleeved uniform--is obviously no kid. He's Elbie Fletcher, former Pittsburgh and Braves first baseman and a friend of Stuffy's. Fletcher, working with Bump Hadley on a Boston sports broadcast, spends considerable time working out with the varsity aspirants. "He's trying to get into shape to play with a western Massachusetts league this summer," somebody offers...
...made bobby-soxers gasp and their boy friends whistle. Anybody who thought a quarter-century in Paris might have made "Josephine" languidly European soon realized his mistake. For all her high-styled gowns, Josephine was still mugging, swaggering and strutting with the free & easy abandon of a pig-tailed kid on a St. Louis street corner. "I Love You." Few of the customers had heard Baker's French, Italian and Spanish specialties before, but when she delivered them in her big soprano with a shake of satiny shoulders and a dip of swiveled hips, the exotics were as easy...
...England Home when written in 1896, the song was not published until seven years and several revisions later, eventually spread through vaudeville, tavern, and singing society to become the nation's favorite drinking ballad. Composer Armstrong, who also wrote / Love My Wife, but, Oh You Kid, made close to $100,000 from Sweet Adeline...