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Jerome J. Weinstein-Mary Lee Mack (Radcliffe...
Divorced. By Phyllis Haver Seeman, 46, bouncy, blonde bathing beauty of many an oldtime Mack Sennett custard-slinging silent film: William Seeman, 53, millionaire Manhattan wholesale grocer (White Rose brand); after 16 years of marriage; in Reno. Said she: "Bill has too much vitality. I'm getting older and want a little peace...
...Connie Mack has missed very few bets in his 44 years with the Philadelphia Athletics. But he gave up too soon on Al Benton. Ten years ago he shunted the big, happy-go-lucky pitcher off to the minors. In exile, 6-ft.-4 Al worked for Williamsport, Albany, Chattanooga, Memphis, Toledo. Gradually, he cured a sore arm and came up again, this time with the Detroit Tigers. As their grade-A relief pitcher, he averaged over 150 innings a season, and saved many a game, from 1939 through...
...time, allowed one lone earned run in the 36 innings and breezed to four straight wins. His combination fast ball and curve have taken the play from his dazzling mound-mates Dizzy Trout and Hal Newhouser, who almost won last year's pennant for Detroit. Last week, Connie Mack said that Detroit was the American League team to beat-mainly because of the added oomph which Al has given the Tigers' pitching staff...
Meanwhile, the Briggs Manufacturing Co. found the time ripe for firing seven union shop stewards and committeemen at their Mack Avenue plant. The men were accused of fomenting 57 strikes at the Briggs plant. Immediately, 5,800 Briggs employes walked out, started the company's 161st wartime strike. The company fired eight more union men. The union local voted to stay out until the dis charged men were rehired. As the U.A.W.'s harried International officers sought to smooth things over, they were picketed by Briggs strikers. The pickets gathered under an office occupied by George Addes...