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...years, hapless straphangers have protested in vain. Chicago's traction troubles are rooted in corrupt politics and civic inertia. But last week Chicagoans were no less amazed than if they had suddenly seen the Wrigley Building afloat in Lake Michigan. The "traction problem" was apparently solved at last...
...confidence. In varying degrees all champions must have a deep belief in themselves. Henri Cochet and Fred Perry had plenty of it; Tilden, the prissy virtuoso, had it to an insolent degree. It is the same quality that enabled Babe Ruth to point to the right-field bleachers at Wrigley Field during one World Series game and slam the most famed home run of his career...
Shortly before noon, jug-eared Ewell Blackwell walked onto the turf at Chicago's Wrigley Field. It was an hour and a half before game time. He looked around, then strolled nonchalantly to the third-base dugout. Someone offered him a chew of tobacco and asked if he was nervous. The most talked-about pitcher of the year waved away the tobacco and said: "Naw, I don't get nervous any more. Last year I used to be nervous as a cat before a game, and then I found it made me wild in the early innings...
...trolley and El. Largely because of its location, it consistently outdraws Chicago's bigger, more modern Brookfield Zoo, which lies 13 miles southwest of the Loop. Even when the Cubs are as determinedly in the pennant race as they are this season, Lincoln Park has bigger crowds than Wrigley Field; its 1947 attendance will probably hit 3,000,000-a new high...
...Robbins Co. got into the premium business through the manufacture of ornaments for reservation Indians, who sold them to tourists as examples of native handicraft. While Leavens was Robbins' district sales manager in Chicago, he got an order to make similar trinkets for the Wrigley Co. A radio character named "Chief Wolfpaw, the Lone Wolf," sent them out for gum wrappers. Wrigley's was so snowed under with wrappers that it has never offered premiums since. But Robbins went on to become the biggest maker of box-top trinkets. From these and its other products (jewelry, name plates...