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Hoss picked carefully among his offers : he turned down the Yankees because the competition would be too stiff and he might wind up on the farm team in Newark; he rejected the Dodgers (who offered the most money) because he didn't think he'd like Brooklyn; a Card scout wrote him a nine-page letter, but he thought the Cardinals were too penny-pinching. Finally he took a $27,500 bonus for joining the Reds. If Hoss doesn't play third base this year, General Manager Warren Giles says he will have to fire five scouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: News from the Grapefruit Circuit | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Divorced. Mickey Walker, 44, world's middle and welterweight champ of the '20s, today a self-taught, persevering painter; by Wife No. 3 Eleanor Marvil Walker; after seven years of marriage, one child; in Newark, N.J. Said she: "Art is now Mickey's only love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Afraid that the President's words meant a shortage in flour, the nation's more excitable citizens rushed to the grocery stores. A Newark, N.J. storekeeper reported: "One man bought ten 10-lb. sacks." A Chicago chain-store manager frantically called headquarters for more supplies. "They said all the stores were calling in for white flour-that they'd need 30 carloads to take care of the demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Little More Hectic | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...there any money to be made on hand-to-mouth freight flying, without ample capital and nationwide offices to line up business. Saunie Gravely, a 22-year-old ex-gunnery instructor, had found that out. He and 40 other veterans in Newark had raised $40,000, formed Veterans' Air Express Co., Inc. After two months of flying everything they could lay their hands on, lobsters, penicillin, flowers, turkey, etc., they decided to try flying passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Veterans Spread Their Wings | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Sanitary Clauses. In Newark, Health Officer Charles V. Craster announced that an inspector-Santa Claus would snoop around to make sure that other Santas obeyed health rules: 1) no kissing children; 2) no wiping noses on gloves; 3) no dirty beards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 24, 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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