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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C, MARCH 12, 1943 Whc/s News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. '^JOT even the march of 50,000,000 ■*- ’ armed men can shut out your dreams. I was thinking about this while sitting at lunch with Frank Frisch. "You are a long way from that dream you had at Braden ton, Fla., in 1935,” I suggested. Frisch smiled wanly. “I remem ber that one," he finally added. "Yes,” Frank con tinued, “that was quite a dream. Re member the night we sat under that Florida moon and picked to be the first manager to win five pennants and five world se ries in a row? I even believed you. “We had just beaten the Tigers in 1934 with a great young ball club. Back of the bat I had Bill Delancey, around 22, one of the greatest young catchers baseball ever saw. Smart, game, everything. GrantlandRlce you had me "In the box we had the two Deans, Dtx and Paul, both young and strong and both great pitchers. And don’t forget Pepper Martin. What a guy. I had Durocher at short, one of the best even if he never batted much over .200.” Coming Up "And don’t forget,” 1 suggested, “the men you had coming up next year.” "I haven’t forgotten that either,” Frisch cut in. “One of them was a young race horse by the name of Terry Moore, coming on from Columbus. Anoth er was a pretty fair hitter by the name of Johnny Mize,-! heading in from Rochester. That wasn’t all. We had a lot of good young-farm ball players on tap, who have since been stars. We had everything going our way for the next four years. Don’t forget a fellow named Joe Medwick. I could name you many others. And then the fuse blew out.” What Happened What happened after that was en tirely too morbid for Frisch to dis cuss at any length, as he stared out across New York snow in place of Florida’s palms and sunshine. Twenty-two-year-old Bill Delancey, the catching find of the day, devel oped a lung ailment and had to quit active play. The two Deans, each over 6 feet 3, weighing 185 and 190 pounds, lost their arms. Each should have been good for 10 more years—and don’t forget to gether they were good for 50 win ning games. After this, one thing and another began to happen as the Cardinals finally had to wait eight years be fore they finally overhauled the Dodgers to win last fall. They put Frisch out, although he had turned in a great managing job, and struggled along with others until they finally came to Billy South- worth, another able manager. And all this was something that Fate, not Frank Frisch, controlled along the rocky road to destiny. Diz and Delancey “There was the battery,” Frisch said. “Dizzy Dean and Bill Delan cey. I’d say in 1934 when Diz was right that he was the greatest pitch er I ever saw. Especially in a hot spot. “Don’t forget he gave me and left me many a headache. He was about as easy to handle as a king cobra. “But be could pitch. Any time for my money. You know he want ed to pitch the entire series against the Tigers? I can’t beat ’em four straight, Diz said, but one can win four out of five. I believe he could. Killing speed, a great slow ball, per fect control, any sort of curve, a cool head and a stout heart—and perfect confidence in himself. He should never have quit baseball. He still would have made a fine first baseman or a good outfielder. “Delancey? The greatest young catcher baseball ever looked at. An other Dickey, Cochrane or Hartnett. Maybe better. "Let’s wake up,” Frisch said. "The dream ended eight years ago.” Frisch was one of the brightest football and baseball stars our two leading games have ever known. Favored with physical skill, Frisch was even more important on the quick thinking, competitive side. “Toe many people forget,” Frank told me, “just how important any competitive sport is. Competitive sport has a side that has been badly overlooked. And I mean in connec tion with any form of the war game we face today. What Competition Means "Hard competition,” Frisch said, “means, first of ail, complete con centration under fire. I mean the fire of the football field, baseball, basketball, boxing and other games. "In these games you are taught and trained to think in a split sec ond. If you are wrong, you are generally beaten. And in this coun try no one likes to be beaten. This is the finest sort of training for the individual ability that Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker talks about. He is 100 per cent right. EDITOR’S NOTE — With the deetb ot Lemuel F. Par ton, Delos W. Lovelace, a journalist of many years’ experience, will con duct the WHO’S NEWS column. More Reason for Adding ‘in the Air* To Marines’ Hymn TUEW YORK.—Maj. Rutlr Cheney ^ ' Streeter, new Marine Corps Women’s Reserve director, has been an airplane pilot since 1940. Dates don’t lie, and those in Mrs. Street er’s diary say she was born in 1895. That would make her 45 when she began to fly. Not many women do that at that age. There isn’t another, probably, be tween the Halls of Montezuma and the shores of Tripoli; a fact doubt less pleasing to the marines as the major scouts the country seeking 19,000 recruits for her command. A year or so after her first les son the major had a commercial license, too, and a little time back the 126th squadron, army air forces, made her honorary pilot. She is also the only woman on New Jer sey’s defense council’s committee on aviation. Major Streeter’s home is at Morristown, N. J. Before the war there were few town schemes and stratagems in which she didn’t have a hand. She belongs to six clubs, to the Junior League and to the New Hampshire Society of Colonial Dames. When the war began she expanded her orbit to in clude most of the doings at Camp Dix nearby. Now to Dix she adds the marine corps. Her children, happily, are all old enough to go their own gait . . . daughter Lillian and sons Frank and Henry, who are ensigns, and Thomas W. Jr., who is in the army reserve. The senior Thomas W. is a law yer and retired public utilities ex pert now collecting funds for the Red Cross. /"\NE college, three universities, ten years in the law and three with the United States attorney gen eral have helped make Norman | r* 54. Littell Keeps Uncle Sam a w j s e r From Being Rooked man. A In Big Land Deals f dder t o o, c o n- sidering the fummy-diddles he has lately uncovered. Mr. Littell is assistant attor ney general in charge of the government’s wartime real es tate business. Land is needed for shipyards, housing and all the army’s great growing pains. When the boys come marching home the government will own 20,000,000 acres, five times as many as there are in the state of Maine. In a venture so vast. Uncle Sam could be rooked to a fare-ye-well. If he isn’t, Mr. Lit tell will have earned a D.S.C. Forty-four now, he joined the at torney general’s staff in 1939. Ear lier he had practiced law in Seattle after studying at Wabash college, Oxford, Harvard and Washington university. At Oxford he was a Rhodes scholar. He was born at Indianapolis, Ind., and has been married 12 years. Two children. Already his canny double-check on real estate deals has saved the price of a few Flying Fortresses, maybe of a battleship. He cut one $195,000 fee in half, cut a couple of com missions from 6% per cent to 3% per cent, persuaded one land agent to take a flat $50 fee on each of 600 deals although original claims had run as high as $820. —♦ DUDGET DIRECTOR Harold Dew- ■*-* ey Smith will compile the record of the administrative history of the war; and he was handpicked by a To Compile Record Dernocrat Of Administrative History of the War i c Presi dent on the say-so of a Democrat ic Supreme court justice. Neverthe less Republicans borrow trouble if they wonder whether the record will be on the level. Fifty years from now undoubtedly anybody will be able to travel the budget director’s miles of memos and learn the truth about everybody’s sins. Mr. Smith loves documents and data too well to finagle them even for his party. When Associate Justice Frank Murphy sold President Roose velt on Mr. Smith he was budget director of Michigan. That was three years back. He had got to Michigan’s state capitol after righting the problems of cities in both Michigan and Kansas. He was born iu Kansas, 45 years ago. He got a degree in engi neering from the University of Kansas. His first good job was in Detroit, after he finished a navy enlistment in the first World war and had mar ried. The states of Kansas and Michigan kept him busy all his life until he went to Washington, D. C. With his wife and three daugh ters he lives now in Arlington, Va., deliberate, conscientious, and neat, his sober, triangular face constcnt- ly concerned with budgetary esti mates. He has estimated that the war is costing us more than a bil lion a week, and that one person in every 102 is on the federal pay roll. By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union. M ILITARY experts contend that “Singing soldiers are fighting soldiers”—so American army men on all fronts and in camps at home are to receive army hit-kits each month, with the lyrics of six top songs select ed by the soldiers and a commit tee headed by Fred Waring. As chairman he conferred with Mark Warnow, director of NBC’s “Your All Time Hit Parade,” Lanny Ross, Jimmy Dorsey, Connie Boswell, Ma jor Howard J. Bronson and Captain Harry Salter. Kate Smith and (JJuy Lombardo are also members of the committee. * Laraine Day, Cary Grant’s lead ing lady in RKO’s “Mr. Lucky,” has her biggest opportunity in that pic ture, but she had to be killed off to get it. Remember her as Dr. Kil- LARAINE DAY dare’s nurse in the Kildare series? She became so popular in that role that they did away with her in “Dr. Kildare’s Wedding Day” so that she’d have a chance to go on to bigger and better things. *— That overseas trip made by Kay Francis, Martha Raye, Mitzi May- fair and Carole Landis is to have an aftermath. Twentieth Century-Fox will base a picture on the girls’ ex periences, calling it—for the mo ment, at least—“Four Jills in a Jeep.” -7* For some time the major motion picture companies have been eyeing "One Man’s Family”—it’s been a leading radio serial for 11 years, and has an estimated weekly audience of 2114 million listeners. Charles R. Rogers finally captured the screen rights, for United Artists release, by paying Carleton R. Morse the highest price ever paid for a radio program! * They tell us that Virginia Weidler had no warning that her sister Renee was going to turn up in the role of one of her school chums in “Best Foot Forward.” Seems that Renee, two years older than Virginia, had been working as a gas station at tendant, to release a man for war service, and intends to become a welder, but is taking a turn at the movies between times. * The sound effects library at War- • ner Bros, keeps right up to date; added some new effects for “Air Force,” and ran into one of the most difficult recordings made so far— the smacking sound made by the opening of a parachute when a pilot leaps. * Fenry Aldrich and his family have burst into print, by way of an ex cellent article in a national maga zine. They’re so real that it’s a shock to go to the play, “The Pa triots,” and see House Jameson, Henry’s radio father all these years, giving a superb performance as Alexander Hamilton. Incidentally, Madge Evans, silent screen star and wife of “The Patriots’ ” author, plays Thomas Jefferson’s daughter. * A sudden switch in the shooting schedule of Columbia’s “Attack by Night” meant that Brian Aherne had to be rushed from a golf course to the set. He was hurried through make-up and wardrobe and out to his place before the cameras, put on an operating table, and completely covered—except for his left knee, upon which a motion picture opera tion was performed! * Michele Morgan, who made her Hollywood debut in “Joan of Paris,” steps into a tuneful musical comedy with her next role, when she stars in “Higher and Higher.” Frank Sinatra, whom you’ve heard on the air, also has a prominent role. Miss Morgan’s first French film gave her the lead opposite Charles Boyer. * ODDS AND ENDS Vera Vague, of the Bob Hope radio pro- gram, who's made several Republic pic tures, has been signed by Columbia to ap pear in a special series of short comedies next season . . . 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