Baseball fans clash over AL MVP picks in heated letters
Readers volley opinions on Joe DiMaggio Ted Williams and Bob Feller plus Cecil Travis Cullenbine Thornton Lee and Frank Hayes arguing who should win the American League Most Valuable Player. The letters reflect strong fan loyalties and debate over 1940s star performances.
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Joe DiMaggio
Ted Williams
Bob Feller
Albion
Mich
Cecil Travis
Washington Senators
Travis
Senators
DiMaggio
Williams
Feller
Yankees
Red Sox
Indians
Cullenbine
Thornton Lee
Frank Hayes
Wiliams
Bob Felfer
Jimmy Dykes
Dodgers and Cardinals battle for pennant amid dust and doubt
The pennant race centers on star players from the Dodgers and Cardinals as injuries shift momentum. Pete Reiser was favored before his injury, with Whit Wyatt, Kirby Higbe, Dolph Camilli, Dixie Walker, and Ducky Medwick leading the Dodgers contenders alongside Cardinal figures Terry Moore, Johnny Mize, Ernie White, Johnny Hopp, Frank Crespi and Jimmy Brown in the running.
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Pete Reiser
Pete
Dodgers
Whit Wyatt
Kirby Higbe
Dolph Camilli
Dixie Walker
Ducky Medwick
Terry Moore
Cardinal
Terry
Ernie White
Johnny Hopp
Johnny Mize
Frank Crespi
Jimmy Brown
Speaking of Sports Highlights for the Fall Season
Veteran coach Bernie Bierman and the Minnesota Gophers figure as the marquee in a broad preview of 1940s college football. The piece surveys top backfield talents across the Midwest, mentions Notre Dame, Ivy League contenders, Stanford, Duke, Alabama, Georgia, and notes injury-prone Cardinals and other early-season uncertainties. It also includes brief notes on players and a boxing prize-fight ban in the District of Columbia.
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Minnesota
Bernie Bierman
Golden Gophers
Norsemen
Gophers
Bierman
Bruce Smith
George Franck
Northwestern
Clawson and
DeCorrevont
Tuffy Chambers
Ike Kepford
Jim Furlong
George Benson
Don Kruger
Dick Erdlitz
East
Fordham
Navy
Jimmy Crowley
Swede Larson
Crowley
Jim Blumenstock
Steve Filipowicz
Columbia
Cornell
Pennsylvania
Harvard
Crimson
Red
Clark Shaughnessy
Stanford
Frankie Albert
Albert
Pete Kmetovic
Laurels
South
Duke
Steve Lach
Alabama
Jimmy Nelson
Georgia
Frank Sinkwich
Jim Thibaut
Tulane
Junius Hovious
Merle Hapes
Mississippi
Bernie Crimmins
Notre Dame
Fay E
Book
Marquette University
Rankin Aeronautical Academy
Tulare
Calilla
Nevada
District of Columbia
R A F Fledglings Train Here at Lakeland School
John Staples of London is among a hundred British boys trained to be pilots at the Lakeland school of aeronautics. Thirty U S cadets also receive expert instruction away from bombed homeland airfields. Staples, age 23, received an Uncle Sam bunny mascot from Florida admirers.
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John Staples
London
Royal Air Force
Lakeland School of Aeronautics
U. S
Staples
Uncle Sam Bunny
Florida
Billie Jones
Sam
Tax reform cartoon spoofs pay as you enter system
A long satirical piece critiques the Simplified Chart income tax plan with quips about post office blanks and a “Not A Headache In A Carload” approach. It jokes that tax forms should be prettier with cartoons and even movie shorts, while lampooning public attitudes toward reform amid world events.
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Senate Finance Committee
Leave a Note bungalow and wooden door fixtures
Readable text describes a practical Leave a Note bungalow item placed beside the front door with a pad and pencil inside the hinged door for guests. Also mentions woodpecker and horse doorknockers and a jig, coping or keyhole saw for cutting items from wood with bright enamels. Pattern 29310 outlines and directions.
Two Classes of People According to De Morgan
The quote contrasts two self-conceptions, those who feel they inhabit a body and those who feel they are a body with a inner mechanism. The speaker likens selfhood to a bottle and wonders what occurs when the bottle is uncorked.
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Japan
China
Churchill
William de Morgan
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A. S
Hank
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Robert McShane
Midwest
Bill Willlenbrand
Indiana
Bill Green
Iowa
Bill de Correvant
Don Clawson
Steve Juzwik
Frank Leahy
Gashouse
R.A.F. Fledglings
America
Lakeland
Sky Fighters
R.A. F
Morgenthau
Uncle Sam
Fiorello
Dynamo Boy
Hanks
Low
Elmer Twitchell
Ima Dodo
Martha
Kansas City
Kellogg Company
Thackeray
Edward
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