Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Hollywood, California –
Well, it seems I got a little mixed up yesterday in explaining the World Series baseball race. In the first place, the St. Louis Browns are not really named Brown at all; they have all sorts of names.
Some of the names they are called when they win in Detroit cannot be printed. In the second place, when they refer to the winning American League team “playing the Cards” they don’t mean gin rummy or poker.
The Cards are another baseball team, called the Cardinals. Where they get those names, I’ll never know.
There’s even a bunch in Brooklyn called the Dodgers. They must have a very lax Draft Board there.
Anyway, you can’t blame me for getting mixed up when full-grown baseball players go around calling themselves names like Cardinals, Dodgers, Giants and Tigers. I prefer professional football. Those teams have names like Cardinals, Dodgers, Giants – well, let it go.
Deweys trip evaluated in reporters’ poll
48 correspondents submit opinions
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Pinchot: Dewey lacks equipment
President knows all the facts
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Wallace takes stump backing fourth term in three speeches here
Vice President in New Kensington today, Uniontown tonight; major address tomorrow
By Kermit McFarland
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Suicide theory discounted by mother of farm boy
Youth had ‘no earthly reason’ to take his life, she testifies at socialite’s trial
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Poll: Military drill in peacetime still favored
Many organizations endorse proposal
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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‘Cripes, it’s the old man!’ –
Patton inspects the front through enemy shellfire
Reporter rides behind ‘Blood and Guts’ and wishes he had stayed at home!
By John M. Carlisle, North American Newspaper Alliance
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Two U.S. airfields in China seized by Japs, Tokyo says
Capture of last Allied stronghold in Hunan Province also claimed by foe
By the United Press
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Nazi claim capture of air army leader
London, England (UP) –
The Berlin radio said today without confirmation that Lt. Gen, Frederick A. M. Browning, field commander of the Allied airborne army in Holland, is a prisoner of war.
Mrs. Browning, who is Daphne du Maurier, the novelist, said she had received no official word of her husband, and had no idea where he is at the moment.
She said an American soldier telephoned her last week that he had seen Gen. Browning and he was safe and well at that time.
Gen. Browning, deputy commander of the airborne army under Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, was married to Miss du Maurier in 1932.
Baillie: Weather, bad terrain loom as big factors in favor of Germans
However, Americans in slimy foxholes inside Siegfried Line retain high morale
By Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press
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Shortage of war shipping poses new Pacific problem
Special appeal made to shipyards for troop transports and combat cargo craft
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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