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August 21, 1927

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PIRATES UNDAUNTED BY BIG ROBIN RALLY; Five Runs Even Count at 7-All in Seventh, but Pittsburgh Goes Ahead to Win, 10-7. PLITT FALTERS AT START Jess Barnes Follows, but Gives Way to Elliott, Who Stems the Assault. PIRATES UNDAUNTED BY BIG ROBIN RALLY

By John Drebinger.by John Drebinger

When Joe McCarthy and his front-running Cubs evacuated Flatbush Friday night he is reported to have left a note for Donie Bush and his pennant-pursuing Pirates which read something like this:

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MR. TYLER PRACTICALLY MAKES A STATEMENT

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LAST season, from the cloistered fastness of his New Amsterdam Theatre office, George C. Tyler promised that he would produce "The Constant Nymph" here if he could find some one to play the leading role, and that he might also do a piece called "Tommy."

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A NEW COLLABORATION

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Collaboration with L Griscom in writing play "Tenth Av,"

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THE WEST THAT HAS COME OF AGE; Its Growing Political and Economic Power, Which President Coolidge Has Sensed From His Black Hills Retreat, Embodies the Vigorous Spirits of the Three Wests of History THE STRONG WEST THAT HAS COME OF AGE

By R.l. Duffus

CALVIN COOLIDGE'S last chance to be remembered as a shatterer of precedents vanished when he chose not to be a candidate for re-election next year. Yet there is considerable significance in the fact that this act of renunciation was performed in a Summer White House in the heart of the South Dakota mountains.

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RUTH CRASHES 39TH AS YANKS FAIL AGAIN; Babe Evens Homer Count With Gehrig While Indians Trounce Hugmen by 14 to 8. TRIBE AMASSES 19 HITS Falls Upon Four New York Pitchers, While Grant Stills Mighty Yankee Bats. RUTH CRASHES 39TH AS YANKS FAIL AGAIN

By Richards Vidmer.special To the New York Times.by Richards Vidmer

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 20. -- Ulysses S. Grant got a lot of credit for taking Richmond and Richmond is only a class B club. Today, George Grant of the Indians took New York, which happens to be leading the American League. A history or two could be written about that also.

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1927Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 2018)^[†]

Thomas Spencer Monson was an American religious leader, author, and the 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As president, he was considered by adherents of the religion to be a prophet, seer, and revelator. Monson's early career was as a manager at the Deseret News, a Utah newspaper owned by the LDS Church. He spent most of his life engaged in various church leadership positions and public service.

Headlines from August 21, 1927

PIRATES UNDAUNTED BY BIG ROBIN RALLY; Five Runs Even Count at 7-All in Seventh, but Pittsburgh Goes Ahead to Win, 10-7. PLITT FALTERS AT START Jess Barnes Follows, but Gives Way to Elliott, Who Stems the Assault. PIRATES UNDAUNTED BY BIG ROBIN RALLY

MR. TYLER PRACTICALLY MAKES A STATEMENT

A NEW COLLABORATION

THE WEST THAT HAS COME OF AGE; Its Growing Political and Economic Power, Which President Coolidge Has Sensed From His Black Hills Retreat, Embodies the Vigorous Spirits of the Three Wests of History THE STRONG WEST THAT HAS COME OF AGE

RUTH CRASHES 39TH AS YANKS FAIL AGAIN; Babe Evens Homer Count With Gehrig While Indians Trounce Hugmen by 14 to 8. TRIBE AMASSES 19 HITS Falls Upon Four New York Pitchers, While Grant Stills Mighty Yankee Bats. RUTH CRASHES 39TH AS YANKS FAIL AGAIN

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