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BOSTON, July 17 -- The Braves and Dodgers both seemed to be trying to throw today's game away. Five of their six evenly divided errors figured in the scoring, but Captain Dolph Camilli's bat finally spoke with enough authority to give the Brooks the triumph, 7 -- 5.
Gers try to rally forces at foot of Mt Etna for Catania defense
WILLIAM SAROYAN'S play "Get Away, Old Man," which from time to time has been seriously considered by at least half-dozen members of the producing fraternity, has now landed on George Abbott's desk.
Allied planes raid Salamaua and Lautem, Timor
Carrying 128 pounds in a way to gratify his admirers, the Alcazar colt, Apache, took the $8,830 Fleetwing Handicap by a length in a driving finish at Jamaica yesterday before 28,461 persons who had made the brown colt a heavy favorite.
1943Joseph J. Ellis, American historian and author[†]
Joseph John-Michael Ellis III is an American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His book American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award in 1997 and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. Both books were bestsellers.