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Trouncing big Standard Oil of New Jersey, Socony-Vacuum and three smaller companies with tanker fleets was the task taken on by National Maritime Union's tough, rock-fisted President Joe Curran. From Galveston to Portland his pickets patrolled the docks, laid up 75 slick, oil-toting tubs. Purpose: to persuade the lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising...
...Little Rock...
Captain Bob Haydock and Bob Partlow should fight it out between them for first place in the high jump, since Husky Captain Danny Miles, a consistent six-footer, is still recovering from an illness and will not compete. The erratic but capable Partlow, who is teamed up with Rock Hollands and Paul Morgan, should also do well in the broad jump. Steve Madey and Andy Rosenberger will pole vault for the Crimson...
...bought Elden Auker and Jake Wade from the Tigers and Denny Galehouse from the Indians. But the pitcher from whom they expect big things (just in case Lefty Grove's arm is really dead) is Woodrow Rich, 22-year-old hillbilly, who won 19 games for their Little Rock farm last year...
...world premiere: Alexander Gretchaninoff's Fifth Symphony. Then, as one adolescent, the whole audience sang Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Schubert's Ave Maria and a brand-new Philadelphia Youth Song to music by Sibelius. Maestro Stokowski called for more jive: "Let the walls rock and the ceiling move up and down," he cried. "I want to see that chandelier agitated by its emotion...