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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 . . . Columbia’s picked up Us
option on Ann Savage: after completing a
three-weeks’ tour of army camps and naval
stations she was given the second feminine
lead in ’’Right Guy" .. . Bill Tuttle, make
up expert, made Donna Reed up for her
first screen lest, which won her a long
term contract with Metro: their recent
wedding was one result. “Mrs. Miniver"
was acclaimed as the best picture of I')42
in the annual Mexican newspaper critics’
poll taken recently.
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Patchwork Apron.
fT IS almost unbelievable how
* cheering a gay apron like this
can be. The bright patchwork
border can come right out of the
scrap pile—bits of different ma
terials that are now lying idle.
• • •
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• • •
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The Answers
1. Which President of the United
States introduced the spoils sys
tem?
2. Is the dodo a real or fabulous
bird?
3. What was the peak public
debt of the U. S. at the end of
World War I?
4. If told you are "sapient,”
would you consider it a compli
ment or ridicule?
5. Which gets the greater salary
in congress, a senator or represent
ative?
6. What is the difference be
tween ingenious and ingenuous?
7. The principal garment of a
Hindu woman is called what?
8. How do you spell the name of
the pigtail the Chinese formerly
wore in China?
9. Which is the largest artificial
lake in the world?
10. What is the difference be
tween a pirate ship and a priva
teer?
Rubbing Noses
Rubbing, or pressing, noses is a
Widespread custom in the Pacific
area as a sign of greeting or
friendship. It is followed by na
tives of Burma and Indo-China
and by many islanders.
1. Andrew Jackson. *
2. It was a real bird, now extinct.
3. Twenty-six billion on August
31, 1919.
4. The word means wise, saga
cious.
5. Both get $10,000 a year.
6. Ingenious—inventive, skillful;
ingenuous—frank, innocent,
7. A sari.
8. Queue.
9. Lake Mead (Boulder dam).
10. A pirate ship is an armed
vessel engaged in robbery upon
the high seas, while a privateer is
an armed private vessel commis
sioned to war upon an enemy.
The new steel helmet just adopt
ed by the Army is no longer called
a “tin hat.” It’s a “head bucket”
and when you see one you’ll know
why. Our soldiers have changed
much of their slang since the last
war, but not their preference for
Camel Cigarettes. Now—as then
—Camels are the favorite. They’re
the favorite cigarette with men in
the Navy, Marines and Coast
Guard as well, according to actual
sales records from service men’s
stores. If you want to be sure of
your gift to friends or relatives in
the service being well received,
stop in at your local dealer’s and
send a carton of Camels.—Adv.
I WAS A SLAVE
TO CONSTIPATHM
Talk about being In bond-
agel I felt as If I were walk
ing around In chains. Purges
only helped me temporarilj.
Then I learned the cane
of my constipation. It was
lack of “bulk'' In my diet.
So I took a friend’s advice
and began eating kslioosI
aix-buk. It sure Is a grand-
tasting cereal—and did Just
what he said It would do. B
got at the cause of my con
stipation and corrected it!
If your trouble Is like
mine, why don’t you try
all-bran? Just eat it regu
larly, drink plenty of water
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Follow complete di
rections in folder.
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SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
rubber latex as It drips from the
trees to about 60 per cent waters
28 per cent chemically pure rub-
proteins and sugars*
Clothing made water-proof by the
use of robber was being sold in Eng*
land as early as 1791.
Beads of the live and ten cents
variety have a stronger InNe*
once than ordinary currency fas
encouraging the Yumbo Indiana
of Ecuador's Oriente (tingle to
of the Amazon. Next to beadv
guns and machetes put the "go**
In the Yumbo*
The first robber to be Imported hate
the U. S. was in the form of water
bottles. They came direct from Dm
Amazon district.
A full grown Hevea rubber tren
averages 80 to 60 feet In hsight
and Its average Bfe Is 40 yearn
Jk um ot peace
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PIRST IN RUBBER
A*
SAYS
ACE TEST
PILOT
T-ZONE—where cigarettes are fudged
The *T-ZONE*—Taste and Throat—is the
proving ground for cigarettes. Only your
taste and throat can decide which ciga
rette tastes best to you . . . and how it
affects your throat. Based on the experi
ence ot millions of smokers, we believe
Camels will suit your •T-ZONS” to a *1.*
Camel