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Maybe the Yankees will never stop winning. Last week one of their 12 farm teams, the Newark (New Jersey) Bears, clinched the pennant in the International League (the East's top minor league) for the sixth time in ten years of Yankee ownership...
...competitors MBS started through necessity. Back in 1934 Gordon Baking Co., which was sponsoring the Lone Ranger out of Detroit, wanted to hit the New York and Chicago markets, with no stops at aerial way stations. Neither NBC nor CBS could render the spot coverage. But WOR, then of Newark, and WGN of Chicago agreed to provide a dual hookup. The Gordon method of radio advertising appealed to many another sponsor...
Brewster Aeronautical Corp. (Newark, N.J.) needed mechanics who could crawl inside flying-boat wings, hold rivets in place while workmen outside hammered away with rivet guns. Brewster's skinniest workers found the chore a squeezing torture, could stand it for only a few minutes at a time. Along came 19-year-old Johnny Giovenco ("Johnny Gee" for short), a Brooklyn mechanic who usually had a hard time getting a job because he was only four feet high, weighed 88 Ib. He quickly got an inside job with Brewster. After New York newspapers printed his picture, little men swarmed...
...Gerry Lux, Radcliffe Horace Morison, Jr. Grace Eddy, Boston Robert C. Rodger Alice Angelo, Newton Donald G. Schnabel, Jr. Charlotte Taylor, Tufts William P. Slichter Katherine Varrell, Smith Frants Sporon-Fiedler Mary Bush, Dedham Edward M. Taylor June Straw, Hampton Falls, N. H. Wilbur F. Tiemann, Jr. Jerry Hess, Newark, Ohio Louis J. Verhaus, II Ornie Lerner, New York, N. Y. Richard P. Wakefield Eleanor Francis, Maplewood, N. J. Miles C. Wambaugh Ann Munson, Providence, R. I. George A. Work, III Roberta Scholz, Radcliffe Benjamin T. Wright Gretchen Merrill, Chestnut Hill HOLLIS HALL William A. Allen Janet Baker, Massachusetts...
...Port Newark, N. J., an Italian seaman with no love for Il Duce tipped off a customs official that Italian ships in U. S. ports were being systematically sabotaged by their crews. In a few hours word reached the President. Back came an order from the Potomac: seize all German and Italian ships to prevent their being further damaged; put all Danish ships in protective custody. In Washington, tall, mild, Acting Treasury Secretary Herbert Earle Gaston put his finger on Section I of Title II of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, authorizing seizure of foreign vessels "to prevent...