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Roberts may very well see action on Saturday, but his rapid promotion from Jayvee to potential Varsity first-string in the space of one week has been a little too sudden to justify his starting. The strain on a player so handled would be too great...
...lack the batting strength of the world champion Cardinals, the pitching of the New York Giants. While the Giants were getting off to a nine-game lead by the Fourth of July the Cubs lived down to their rating in fourth place. In August the Giants went into a sudden decline for the second year in a row and the Cardinals caught up with them. The Cubs by this time were in third place but still nobody took them seriously as pennant contenders until their winning streak started early in September...
Last week ambitious Editor Powell's trajectory described a curve he did not plot-a precipitate and sudden return to zero. Back from a vacation in the Caribbean, he found himself fired without notice, his place taken by a onetime Unitarian minister named Ludwig Denny. To the Times staff, Scripps-Howard's Executive Editor John Sorrells explained that Editor Powell had "resigned." To Editor Powell he explained that he was "temperamentally and philosophically unsuited" for the job. Editor Powell agreed...
...previous expedition, Mr. Lake had an equally unpleasant experience. A sudden heat wave overlook him and his party far from camp. A wee nip of Scotch was proposed to lessen the ravages of climate. The suggestion was approved. A bottle was produced, opened,--and dropped with disgust. The servants had packed vinegar by mistake...
Last week in the fifth round of its long and litigious effort to tag Aluminum Co. of America as a monopoly, Baush Machine Tool Co. received a sharp and sudden jolt. Most aluminum fabricators can use scrap but the chemistry of the Baush product requires pure ingot aluminum, which the company has to buy abroad (over a 4¢ per Ib. tariff) or from Aluminum Co. of America, sole domestic source. The Baush management regards Aluminum as an unfair enterprise. Aluminum's opinion of Baush was summed up by an Aluminum lawyer who, noting the company's succession of deficits, remarked...