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Whatever happened to Bob Feller? Fans have wondered ever since the onetime pitcher ace of the Cleveland Indians disappeared into the silence of Navy sea duty 14 months ago. Last week, in a letter to the Chicago Daily News, a Seabee reported that Feller is a chief specialist on a battleship in the Pacific, that his pitching arm is still good. Against two strong service teams on unnamed islands, Feller struck out 15 in the first game, 18 in the second, and drove in three runs himself...
...face of Adolf Hitler. It was also, according to Konrad Heiden, refugee journalist-specialist in Hitlerism, the face of a "new social type," a face which may vary from country to country but which, in Europe, "is always topped by a soldier's cap." The day of "religious man" and of "economic man" is dead, says Heiden; it is "intellectual man who is becoming the new ruler...
Unferocious. During Prohibition, Lane became the Daily News gangster specialist. He was creating an Oxie technique then. He snickered at the gangsters by inventing unferocious nicknames for them: "Greasy Thumb" Gusik, "Loudmouth" Levine, "Violet" Fusco. (Fusco's pals thereafter sent him bunches of violets...
...lowest artillery level, the New Deal's Senatorial smear specialist, Pennsylvania's Joe Guffey, leveled a bazooka at the literary naivete of Freshman Butler. Delightedly Joe Guffey read to the Senate from Butler's report: "Mexico is a land of beautiful mountains.. ."; of El Salvador, "this little country is picturesque"; of Colombia, "it is full of mountains"; of Chile, it is "long and narrow."Said Senator Guffey drily: "[These observations] show him to be a man of singular powers of observation...
...pleases, but he must also make practical contributions to the life of the college community. Tuition, board and lodging are $1,200 a year, but half the students are on partial scholarships. Graduation is based on an examination in the candidate's major field, given by a visiting specialist.* Black Mountain's 230 alumni have made a good showing in graduate study at major universities, in work at teaching, music, journalism. More than one in 20 are officers in the U.S. armed forces.f...