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...will not be a pushover. A product of the late John J. McGraw's careful supervision, Fitz has fooled the sportswriters, who kept saying he was through, every year since 1935. Each season-as his big-league total rose to 18-knuckle-baller Fitz rocked into his half-spin, his "butterfly" ball fluttered, cajoled and deceived .300 hitters. An easygoing storehouse of baseball knowledge, Fitz should be an immeasurable asset to the Phillies' personnel...
...Flak caught another B-26 over the same target, killed the pilot. His body fell forward and threw the ship out of control. The copilot, Flight Officer Stanley B. Farley Jr., lifted the pilot off the controls and pulled the plane out of a spin. The gunners were all wounded, but they crawled forward and dragged the pilot's body out of Farley's way. He had never landed a B26, a plane so "hot" on landing that many experienced pilots do not like to fly it. But Farley brought his B-26 in gently, drifting...
...steam turbine is a simple machine that works like a water wheel, with jets of steam instead of water furnishing the power. Advantage of the high-pressure, high-temperature turbine is that it makes the blades spin faster and more powerfully with less expenditure of fuel. In the newest Navy ships, the steam, under pressure of 600 lb. per square inch, is superheated to 850° Fahrenheit...
Then there is the Winthrop House and De Wolfe Street Yo-Yo and top Spinning Society which claims to hold meetings at odd hours under the Lars Anderson Bridge. A rather shady looking bloke, claiming he was a charter member, gave a last spin to his Yo-Yo and retired for the night whistling "Yokahama Yo-Yo" until it was lost on the night...
After the article was written, the editors rewrote it six times over before they felt it measured up to its theme. For its purpose is a tremendous one-to "spin the world" and let you visualize its 2,000,000,000 people with all their conflicts, hopes and aspirations-to help you think of the peace not in arbitrary terms of fixing new frontiers and imposing just penalties, but in human terms of the lives and dreams of all the peoples of the earth...