Baseball legends spark debate over all time National League outfield
The author defends Fred Clarke, Jimmy Sheckard, Mel Ott and others as top NL outfielders while noting challengers from Mike Donlin to Zach Wheat. He compares NL stars to strong American League trios and cites other sports anecdotes, including a rule ruling by Ford Frick and a discussion from a marine corps problem about a third strike.
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Fred Clarke
Pirates
Terry Moore
Cardinals
Mel Ott
Giants
Jimmy Sheckard
Dodgers
Cubs
Zach Wheat
Ross Young
Stan Musial
George Burns
Mike Donlin
Wildfire Schulte
Circus Solly Holmas
Roush
Cincinnati
Klein
Philadelphia
Paul Waner
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
Medwick
Cobb
Ruth
Speaker
Joe Jackson
DiMaggio
Ted Williams
Jackson
Williams
Bill Dickey
Bill
Gehrig
Joe
Tris Speaker
Ford Frick
National League
Prisoners of war in German camps find humor and art as escape
Washington writer reports POW life from Red Cross sources. In camps like Stalag Luft III humor, theater and sports sustain morale. Letters packages and Red Cross shipments support prisoners while new plays and contests offer a form of escape.
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Germany
War Department
Red Cross
Reich
International
Kipling
Webster
Kriegie Times
Stalag Luft III
Sagan
Our Town
Tobacco Road
Stalingrad
Flieger
Kriegie
Army
New York
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Marseille
Switzerland
Lisbon
BRIEFS Special Diets Aid German POWs and Milkweed Harvest
Bankgage notes special diet packages sent to German POW hospitals. Captives transferred to transit camps receive a Red Cross capture kit with brush comb and razor. Normandy POWs volunteer for harvest in Britain. Youth groups join drive to recruit school-age milkweed pod harvesters for life jacket foam needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Red Cross
Kit
Lesson for September 10 Subject and Priest Texts
Lesson for September 10 outlines subjects and priestly texts as issued by the International Council of Religious Education with permission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interna Onal Council of
Gious Education
Folding bag from unbleached twine crochet cotton
An 18 inch folding bag is crafted from unbleached string and crochet cotton. It folds small for market use and is advertised as strong enough to carry a raft of groceries in a purse.
Four young men boast of height in a playful chat
In a light hearted passage three youths brag about their height. Tom boasts six feet two and a half inches, Dick claims six feet five and three quarters, and Harry says seven feet eight with his umbrella. A joke about school work and stairs adds to the playful tone.
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Tom
Harry
Doctor Delivers Quip After Home Guard Collision
A country doctor on his rounds narrowly avoids hitting a Home Guard in the road. He asks the man where the pain is and the reply is that there is none, claiming the road is a river he can only swim on his back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David
God
Saul
Samuel the Prophet
Old England
Bless the Soldier Wears These Socks Note
A soldier limps across the drill field, returns to the bar racks and removes his boot to reveal a blistered toe. In the sock’s toe, a neatly folded note reads bless the soldier who wears these socks, left by a thoughtful sock knitter.
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Washington Digest
U.S
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WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Yank
Samuel
Jesse
Israel
Bankhage
Normandy
Great Britain
Impro Uniform International
Schoolesson
Harold L. Lundquist
D. D
The
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Sewing Circle Needlework
South Wells St
Chicago
Jimmy
P.O
Yodora
Tropics
McKeseon & Robbins, Inc
Bridgeport
Far East
Bfgoodrich
Souk
Fieschmann
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