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Having clinched the pennant, the Cubs proceeded to beat the Cards once more thus prolonging to 21 games the longest major-league winning streak since the Giants were undefeated for 26 in a row in 1916. Then the Cubs coasted through ie season's last two games, benching four regulars to rest them for the World Series against Detroit, on which betting opened 4-t05 with Detroit the favorite...
Nearly four years ago Charles H. Phillips Chemical Co. started a word game to promote toothpaste sales, offered prizes totaling $600 for the longest list of three-letter standard English words built from such phrases as: "Try Phillips Dental Magnesia," "Get Phillips Magnesia Toothpaste," "Try Phillips Magnesia Toothpaste." Among the 40,000 contestants was a young Queens, N. Y. lexicologist named Ira Gustave Gillman, who compiled six lists, one for each phrase, ranging in length from 150 to 297 words...
...comes down for the last time, the Islands are patently in need of a secure military defense system. To build it, Manuel Quezon on his last trip to Washington secured the services of the biggest military man in the U. S. ? General Douglas MacArthur. Last week, after the longest leadership of the U. S. Army in history, General MacArthur announced his resignation as Chief of Staff, packed his elegant duffel to sail for Manila as the Commonwealth's Military Adviser...
...flying with Lady Hoare to inaugurate personally such new Empire air routes as the 5,566-mile span from London to New Delhi. More recently he has been the most prominent Secretary of State for India of this century, driving relentlessly through the House of Commons the longest bill it ever passed, and thus giving 350,000,000 Indians a new Constitution (TIME, June 17). The reward was Sir Samuel's appointment as His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the star Cabinet portfolio. Last week a British Royal Air Force plane carried "Flying Sam" to Geneva...
Philippa Duke Schuyler, 4, daughter of a Manhattan Negro writer, startles visitors by repeatedly spelling pneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoniosis,* informing them that it is the longest word in the English language. A forceful pianist, a determined rhymester, an avid reader of fourth grade books, Philippa has the added distinction of never having eaten cooked food...