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...picking a publicity man: Franklin D. Roosevelt's old press secretary, Stephen T. Early. Congress had newly created the job of Under Secretary of Defense to give Johnson a workhorse general manager. (World Bank President John J. McCloy was offered the job, but turned it down.) Whatever Steve Early might lack either as an administrator or as a military mind, he certainly made up in priceless savvy about the ways of Washington...
...McInnis influence was clearly visible to the naked eye. In the fifth inning, Steve Howe took a line drive in short right field and overthrew first, trying for a double play. In the old style of play, this would have meant at least a two-base advance for the runner. Not so this year, apparently. Catcher Cliff Crosby appeared to catch the throw intact, as it were, and the situation remained under control...
...Washington to Pinkham Notch, N.H., with a vertical descent of 4,300 feet, is 6 minutes 30 seconds. Sig Engl plummeted down Mt. Lassen, Calif, in 1940 over a course a shade under a mile and a half, dropping 1,800 feet in 1 minute 35 seconds. Steve Knowlton covered a course on the Grossglockner in Austria in June 1945, in 55 seconds for nearly a mile, to win the downhill race conducted by the Tenth Mountain Division...
...trip will also give McInnis a chance to alternate his outfielders in order to attain the best-hitting and tightest-fielding combination by the time the team returns to Cambridge. Tentative plans call for Steve Howe to open in left, Hal Moffie in center, and John Caulfield in right...
...publicity director, will make the southern junket. The men who will tackle the six-games-in-six-days schedule include pitchers Ira Godin, Ralph Hymans, Roy Meears, and Barry Turner; catchers Cliff Crosby and Web Durant; infielders Walt Coulson, Harry Cavanaugh, Mort Dunn, Ernie Mannino; and outfielders John Caulfield, Steve Howe, Hal Moffie, Dick Kobusch, Gordy Ellis, and Kevin Reilly...