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Winter Baseball. All-Star Americans drawn from three teams playing in the Melbourne league won the feature baseball game from All-Star Australians 4-to-1, due largely to the pitching proficiency of one Private Johnny Lund, a big tobacco-chewing Swede from Portland, Ore., who holds the dubious distinction of being the property of the Philadelphia Phillies. Lund allowed only three hits, struck out nine in the seven-inning game. Losing pitcher was Aircraftsman George Dickinson, who was just as good. He gave only three hits in the five innings that he pitched -two of them veriest scratches...
...Lund was a compromise. C.I.O. leaders had hoped the President would appoint their little redheaded big shot, Walter Reuther. A.F. of L. bosses wanted almost anyone else. When Lund was suggested, they settled in jigtime...
...first in Washington. With degrees from Augustana College, Princeton, Columbia, Georgetown (law), he had once toiled in the Interior Department; later in the Farm Security Administration, where he did resettlement work. With his wife, a onetime physical-education instructor, he entertained carefully and well. In 1940 Lund went back to Michigan, ran for Congress, lost a close race. He remained to serve Governor Van Wagoner, kept one eye peeled on Washington...
...immaculately groomed, Lund stepped alertly into the old Sidney Hillman offices in the Social Security Building. Heartsore Sidney Hillman was gone...
...that rose on the curly head of Wendell Lund, son of a Lutheran minister, had set on the stooped, little Russian-born son of a Jewish merchant. After almost three years of anxious, conscientious, misunderstood service to Franklin Roosevelt, Hillman was through. He had wanted the job that went to Paul McNutt. The job that went to Wendell Lund might have galled him. But what would have been a long step down for Sidney Hillman was a long step up for Wendell Lund...