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Manager Billy Southworth of the Boston Braves had good reason to be happy during spring training, which is a notably optimistic time of year anyhow. After one of the largest rebuilding jobs in major-league history (TIME, Dec. 26), Billy finally had an outfield. He had given up his keystone combination of Alvin Dark and Eddie Stanky to get Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall from the New York Giants along with Infielder Buddy Kerr and Pitcher Sam Webb. On top of that, his bosses, Boston building contractors, had shoveled out $100,000 and three players to get fleet-footed Rookie...
...printed sources include both books and current periodicals. Though there are great numbers of books describing the Russian scene at various periods, most of them were published in Russia, and are not readily available for study. Some are not even in the largest libraries, but exist in single copies owned by people scattered throughout the world. In such cases, the Center requests the book, transfers it to microfilm when it is received and returns it to the owner. Rare books have come from such places as the Library of Congress, the West coast, New York, and Paris. The Center also...
Thirty-five members of the varsity and freshman teams have agreed to participate in the workouts. According to William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, this turnout is the largest since before the war. "There seems to be more interest in soccer than ever before," Bingham said...
Adolph W. Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics, ordered the first-round bouts put off until today because "an exceptionally large number of men in the 155 and 191 pound classes." These are the largest tournaments ever, he said...
This year's summer session staff will be the largest in the history of the school. In addition to 70 members of the faculty, the school will employ 50 instructors from other universities to aid in teaching more than 165 courses to more than 3000 students. The session opens July...