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...rate backs. Endicott Peabody was more of a here than Franny Lee--even starting with the tremendous handicap which his guard position gave him. Torby MacDonald was doubtless a great back, but injuries forced him to make more headlines than yardage against Yale. You have to go back to Vern Struck and even Barry Wood to hit a really top-notch backfield star in a Crimson uniform, and even then fingers were crossed all the time against possible injuries...
Ever since Dick Harlow bade a teary farewell at the close of the 1941 season to the best Varsity line Soldiers Fields has seen in recent years--a forward wall which included such rugged characters as Club Peabody Dick Pflster, Loren MacKinney, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller--he's been wistfully seeking its equal. To predict that this year's Beef Trust will be a replica of that famous pre-war predecessor is wishful thinking only for the most partial of Crimson rooters, but a midsummer glance at the situation has enough bright spots to lead to moderately pleasant speculation...
...last season's American League home-run king thought he was worth more to the St. Louis Browns than they did. So Vern ("Meat") Stephens packed off to see the nice man in Mexico City who said things like: "Bah! What is money? I have forty, fifty, sixty million...
...week's end, Jorge Pasquel got a dose of his own poison. Vern Stephens, who had jumped down to Vera Cruz for two games, jumped back into his old job with the Browns-at a reported $4,500 hike in pay. As a bargaining stick, Mexico's "beisbol" league could be used both ways...
...Java, the five-month-old Indonesian Republic of President Soekarno and Premier Sutan Sjahrir wanted full political independence, not dominion status in a Netherlands Commonwealth. According to the A.P.'s Vern Haugland, back from a tour of Java's hinterland, the Republic was well-entrenched and popular...