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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-11
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
Nv Robin Cooas

HOLLYWOOD, March 10 The
school system of America should be
trembling to it's roots. Its sworn
enemy, Forrest Tucker, looks like a
Hollywood success.
Young Mr.. Tucker is 25, six feet
four inches tall, and weights POS
pounds. A blond giant, he is pos
sessed of enough athletic vitality to
wear down ten school systems. He
seems to have contented himself,
however, with exercising his talents
on the faculties of the II different
schools he attended in the course Of
his geographically widespread
studies.
The skipping about was due only
in part to his ingrained derision for
the system. He did not always leave
schools by request; most of the time
it was simply because his family
moved. He has lived in Plainfield,
Indiana (where he was born on Lin
coins birthday, in Des Moines, in
Denver, and in Arlington, Va.
4 y y
Mr.. Tucker tells me these things
as he quaffs a light drink, called q
PINS and redolent of cucumbers, in
a Derby booth. His huge bulk, his
overbearing vitality, and his enthusi-
asm for his favorite topic give me
sympathy for those china pieces Il
that shop wherein the bull wan
dered.
He was not, you may have gather
ed, a model scholar. BY his own &C.
count he held most school rules in
contempt, and broke as many as he
found inconvenient. He won a de-
bate, once, taking the affirmative on
a subject concerning the incompet-
ence of teachers.
He resented being forced into a
grade patterned for pupils less ad-
vanced than he. He arranged, at
n school, to devote only two and
one-half days weekly at attending
classes. At another he was expelled
for smoking on the school grounds,
then reinstated.
On the less arrogant side, how
ever, he had his points.
I'm a self-educated man." he tells
me-. I'm a Quaker. From the age
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of four on I was taught to spend ar
hour each day in though. So I learn
ed how to think. I still spend II
hour each day, just thinking. AnG
I keep on with my education. J
make it a point to read at least q
new books a year; each night I opel
the encyclopedia at random, an6
read up on a new subject; each
night I take a new word from the
dictionary, and make it my own
That's 1865 new words a year, 365 new
subjects I'm familiar with. AND
every night I ask myself, have ]
hurt anyone today? Have I done
anything wrong for myself? If
have, I try next day to do better.
sound like a %screwball, don't II"
Tucker played the sympathetic
heavy in "The Westerner'' with
Gary Cooper. It was his first role.
He came to Hollywood last August.
without previous acting experience,
to break into movies. Through Mary
Boland he met an agent; the agent
advised the social route, with Tucker
hosting and getting into the gossip
columns. Wesley Ruggles tested him
for Arizona" and he won a part,
but the picture was postponed be-
cause Of the war. 1.-THE Westerner"
took him after he dyed his hair dark
brown. Now he's among the candi-
dates for the role of brigham
Young"
If the picture career fails to pan
out, he says he'll go east again -
to write, Or design mems clothes, or
coach football
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Man bout

= Bv George Tucker

NEW YORK, March 1o.-The So
gan that helped Sammy Kaye De-
come famous as an orchestra leao'
or. is a simple little lifting phrase
that is easy to say and just as
EASY to remember. 1t IS SWING
and Sway with Sammy Kaye" n
# is bawled out to the air waves
a dozen times a week by announc'
ers who work his programs.
We have admired Mr.. Kaye for
q. long time, principally because
vol, IAN listen to his music without
ear.plugs, and also because we ad'
mire anyone who starts at the bot
tom and keeps on swimming till
their head breaks water.
The other morning, however. a
Young man named Hal Desfor who
is affiliated with m of the adver'
Using agencies on Broadway got
IN a Remsen Ave. bus in Brook
Ign and practically broke into song
at something he saw scratched on
one of the bus windows. Perhaps
we should add that Mr.. Kaye is a
client of Mr.. Desfor's agency,
and the thing that delighted him
so was the familiar beginning OF
the old phrase "Swing and Sway"
There was something else written
under it, and to get close enough
to read it Desfor practically had to
climb into a lady's lap. But he
made it, and the line he saw was
a slight variation from the original
lyric. Swing and Sway with Malky
KAY" somone had improvised.
This was puzzling for a few mo-
ments, until Desfor noted how
rhythmically the bus began to
sway from side to side. Then he
found the answer Malky Kay was
the name Of the bus driver.
Another young man we admire
a heap is Bob MacGimsey (pro-
nounced "Jimsy' as in Unison
weed), a small town boy from Lou
isiana who probably knows more
about negro spirituals than any
body in the country. Maybe it will
help you Identify him to mention
that he is the composer of "Shad-
rack" He is just back from the
Georgia coast where, at the invita-
ton of Mrs. Maxfield Parrish, wife
of the painter, he collected and re.
corded dozens of native negro songs
sung there in dialect since Geor.
gia's beginnings.
MacGimsey goes soon on a series
of tours for NBC. They'll take
him to all sections Of the country
to lecture, whistle, sing, and talk
about negro music, the real spiri.
tuals that flourish in the back
countries and are sung in African
dialect by rural negroes.
Meanwhile MacGimsey has gone
back to the Bible, as he did with
"Shadrack," for a new song, "Tow-
er of Babel" pronounced bay-bel),
and he has given us permission to
quote a part Of the lyrics.
It's about life "Way back yon-
der in the Bible times, the people
got tired of the daily grind; they
lost good religion out of their mind,
to find a short road to
So they build a tower, as you
know, and climb up, and every
body begins jabbering, until: 1.-THE
tongues got twisted when they
to talk; the legs start to
CULVER when they went to walk;
and the Lawd changed the speech
of brother from brother, till one
talk one way, and n talk an
That gives you an idea. It's be-
ing published by Robbins. Mean
while Mr.. MacGimsey takes his
ease in West 55th street, where he
drips good coffee for anyone who
can prove that they know good
coffee when they taste it.
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BY MORGAN nj. BEATTY
AP Feature Service Writer

WASHINGTON, March 10. - If
Mr.. Welles' journey to Europe
should develop any hope for peace
in the near future, the men who
sent him over there would be the
most surprised people in the world.
For, as the trip develops, it is be-
coming more and more apparent
that most any basis for peace agree
able to Germany, would also mean
that the Allies, by the same token,
would lose the war.
The reasons are these:
1. The Allies succeeded last fall
in mobilizing their military and
economic man power without losing
a man.
2. That mobilization itself was
the first real victory" of the war,
and you could have knocked over
the German high Command with a
feather when they saw it completed,
without internal trouble in France
or Britain.
8. Any peace short Of complete
submission of Germany would mean
the rehabilitation of the Allied
economic and military machinery
WITHOUT gaining the detectives
required by their declaration of war.
4. 1t follows that President Roose-
welt, admittedly sympathetic with
the Allied cause, would not press
for a peace that would embarrass
the Allies by forcing them to turn
down the plan and thereby take
upon themselves the responsibility
of deliberate continuance of the war.
S. 1t also follows that any peace
plan acceptable to Germany would
at least recognize part of the ag-
gressions of the nazif in Czechoslo-
vakia and Poland, and, to that ex-
tent, place the benediction of the
United States on the doctrine that
might makes right. That is exact
ly opposite to the sermons President
Roosevelt and Secretary Hull have
been preaching for three years.
Answers Wanted
Mr. We1leS' trin to E1rope fhero-
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SIX KILLED

CALCUTTA, March IL. lem;
Three Hindus and three ~orsor;
were killed and - other rel.
seriously injured today In 5is,ri..,
gious riot in the Hooghlg cIasa
Is miles from Calcutta. Inc lj
started when several Nos.en, r.
a. COW past Hindus perfoflnit5';7 oh I'll,
ligious ceremony-an act insult
Hindus regarded as a sio0'
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Bean Will Be Candidate
For N. {. House Again

SALISBURY, March 10 VIZ
W. Bean, of Spencer, n OF Ro" &c
representatives in the genera
sembly in 1888 and 1885, announ M
tonight that he would be a a II
date again for the house su0Js" =
the democratic primary s-or
He is the fourth candidate .s
Rowan to enter the leSlsld'l' 40.
Others who have ahnouIU ,,,n,
George R. Uzzell, veteran lh =.
bent; G. Howard G. Buech' ~.
railway machinist of East o+,or
and Kerr Craige Ramsey oil
nav
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DOESN'T LIKE IT

ANN SHERIDAN doesn't like being known as
the "Oomph" girl. That's what a fat man
says when he's kicked in the tummy," she
explains. But she admits there isn't much she
can do about it.
One thing she might do is to turn school
teacher, for which she was destined before
Hollywood discovered what shape she was in.
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TOP o. THE N

Oft as he joys along the Winding a1dy
Occasion comes for every maj to sag,
This rodd-Or THAR"
And as he chooses then,
So shall his journey end
In night or day!
JOHN OXENHAM
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the British, or that it will have any effect
at all: but it was commercially intended to
smooth Mr.. WEL1Es' way when he visits Brit
ish officials. Even if it fails in this it can
not help disabusing some British minds as
to the fabulous wealth we are accommodating
from the war.
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Three Men Make Raid
On Irish Torpedo Boat

DoBL1N, March 10 Up Three
armed men in a rowboat made a
mysterious raid early today on a
new Irish torpedo boat and escaned
II a furry of gunfire.
The boat, part of Ireland's .new
navy" was delivered from Ene,.nd
saturday. The trio boarded her,
Threw a guard into the sea. and
"aoe a getaway despite heavy firing
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lie improvements it is bound to draw some of
the vacation patronage we would otherwise
get.
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Answers Wanted
Mr.. Welles' trip to Europe, there
fore, must mean that President
Roosevelt, Secretary Hull, and the
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for salt, ~ ooes
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Political Angle

Maybe Mr.. Roosevelt will find out
from Mr.. Welles how serious the
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HUDSON PITCHES
MATS TO VICTORY
Rookie Moundsman Turns In
Five-Hit Hurting Job To
Beat Red Sox, FL

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-LR-
Young Sid Hudson, sensational SEN
ator rookie from the Florida State
league, set the Boston Red Sox
down with five hits today while his
mates touched Lefty Grove f o r
eleven and a 2-1 victory.
Hudson himself singled over the
Senator's first run in the second
inning. With the bases full, he
lined a hit to right field but fast
fielding allowed only one run to
score.
George Case opened the eighth
for Washington by beating out a
hit to Joe Cronin and took sec.
ond when Cronin threw wild. Cecil
Travis singled into center field and
Case scored what proved to be the
winning run.
Just when Hudson seemed on his
way to a shutout in the ninth,
Doc Cramer got to first on Rick
Ferrell's error, advanced on Jim
Fox's single to left, and scored
when Lou Finney lined a double
to the right field wall. 2
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BUGS BEAT CUBS
In DOUBLE BILL
Pirates Recapture First Dlvl
sion Berth With 7-3 And
81 Triumphs

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11.-R-
Recapturing a berth in the first
division, the Pittsburgh Pirates
trounced Chicago 7-3 and ST. in
both games of a doubleheader to-
day to give the BUGS three OF the
four-game series.
Pushing the Cubs out of fourth
place and into the second division
for the second time in the series.
the sizzling P Pirates jumped to
within two games of the third
place New York Giants.
The double barreled triumph
came on six Cub errors in the first
game which gave the BUGS five I'M
earned runs, four of them in a
wild eighth inning when the Cubs
committed three of their bungles,
and the four-hit hurting OF Dick
Lanahan in the nightcap.
A five-hit, four-run barrage in
the third frame of tn second
game sent Claude Passeau to the
showers and Vance Page who re-
lieved him, allowed only two hits
in six innings.
Both teams used three hurlers
in the first duel with Johnny Lam
ming getting credit for the win.
The twin sweep gave the BUGS IL
victories in their last II starts.
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PRO GRID ROCKIES
FORGET OLD GLORY
Most Pro Teams Have Already
Started Practicing For Fall
And Winter Games

CHICAGO, Aug. 11.--R-There's
nothing as useless to a pro foot
ball rookie as last years scrap
book-a fact appreciated by at
least one of the recruits to the
money circuit, Lloyd Madden, OF
Colorado School of Mines.
In .ase you've forgotten, Madden
100 pound halfback, led the nation
in scoring last fall, rolling up al
points, a total which surpassed the
scoring record set by WhiZzer
White of Colorado in 1887.
But that's all ancient history now
and Madden knows it.
Scoring records this year? Good
gosh, mol" says Madden as he be-
gins working for a spot with the
Chicago Cardinals. Pm in a more
tough league now. I'll be thank
full If they'll just let me play"
Which doubtless expressed the
sentiments of more than a huns
dred yearlings seeking to capital
ize on their football proWess in
the National league. Practically all
of the Big name seniors OF 1888
are tabled for pro service, includ-
ing such headliners as George Ca-
fego of Tennessee, Granny Lans-
dell and Harry Smith, Southern
California, John Schiechl, S a a
Clara and Clyde Turner, Hardin
Simmons.
A few, such as Nile Kinnick, To-
was superlative p e threaten.
and C1emson's banks McFadden,
have been drafted, but have given
no definite indication of their in
tentions.
The scope of the lure Of the
pro game, however, is indicated
by the fact that At of the 70 coll
legians chosen for the All Star
game Aug. % picked in the
draft last winter and all but a
handful are candidates for pro po-
sitions.
With the opening of the league
title fight only a month away all
of the clubs are in training or will
be shortly. The Washington Red
skins began last week in faraWay
Spokane, WASH, and the Chicago
Cards and Philadelphia Eagles all
ready have started practice, too.
Brooklyn and Pittsburgh began
today, followed by the highly-rated
Chicago Bears and Green B a
ackers, defending champions, on
Monday. Detroit and Cleveland
Join the parade Wednesday and the
New York Giants, Eastern divi-
sion champions, complete the list
with their initial. drills Thursday. 2
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Riggs Defeats Mcneil
To Win Tennis Title

RYE, N. Y, Aug. 11-tR-Bobby
Riggs won the Eastern Grass
Court championship for the fourth
successive year today when he de-
feated Don Mcneil, of Oklahoma
City, 60, 3-6, rs, 60.
After a division of the first two
sets, McNeill punched out a SO
advantage in the third and against
service in the sixth game, he
reached three set points. But
Riggs, who has been in that pre-
dicament before, forced three err
rors from McNeill to win the game
and set the stage for another of
his characteristic uphill rallies.
All sorts of superb o k S
streamed off his racquet as he won
the next six successive games,
holding McNeill to one earned
point in that span, and limiting his
own errors to a minimum. When
+ finally tucked the set away at
rs, the usually decorous tennis
crowd went mad.
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CHICAGO TRIUMPHS|
BY 4-3 DECISIONS
Bengals Dropped Into Tie For
Top With Indians, Who
Divide With Browns

CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-R-The
Chicago White Sox knocked the
pennant-minded Detroit Tigers out
Of undisputed possession of first
place today, winning both games
of a doubleheader by 4 to 3 scores
before 81, 032 spectators.
The two losses dropped the Ii
gers into a tie for the top with
Cleveland, which split two games
at St. Louis.
Ted Lyons, 80 year old veteran,
pitched his eighth victory of the
season in the first game and then
knocked in the winning run with a
double.
The Sox grabbed an early two
run lead in the second game while
John Rigney handcuffed the Tigers
in the early stages, allowing only
one hit in the first six innings.
But in the seventh Barney Nc.
Cosky led off with a single and
Hank Greenberg followed with his
23rd homer of the season, tying
the score. Rudy York then poled
his 21st circuit blow to put the
visitors ahead. Frank H iggip S
singled, sending Rigney to the
showers. He was replaced by Clint
Brown, who gave up only one hit
the rest of the way.
The first game was a see-saw
battle all the way. Both teams
counted one run IT. the second inn
ing and then the Tigers went ahead
with another tally in the third.
The Sox tied the score again in the
fourth. This ended the scoring un-
til Kuhel connected for his goth
home run in the seventh.
The homer, barely reaching the
right field stands, was defleced
into the playing field by a specta-
tor. Detroit protested vainly that
the blow was not a homerun.
Coach Bing Miller was banished
from the game during the argu-
ment.
Detroit pulled up even in the
eighth. L. D. Dutch) Meyer, rock
lie second baseman making h S
first start for the Tigers, singled
and Billy Sullivan followed with
another single. Bruce Campbell,
batting for starting pitcher Buck
Newsom, walked and Earl Averill,
pinch hitting for D ick Bartell,
scored Meyer with an outfield fly.
Pete Fox hit into a doubleplay.
Thus the stage was set for the
first of the two winning rallies.
Mike fresh singled and was forced
then raped a long double to right
center, Kennedy scoring from first
Freddie Hutchinson, who re-
placed Newsom on the mound, was
the losing pitcher. Rookie Meyer
collected one hit in seven times at
bat and scored one run.
The double victory gave the Sox
three of four games in the series
which drew a total of IS, 1892 Gus
toners.
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BOSTON, DODGERS
SPLIT TWIN BILL
Bees Take First Tilt, 3-2;
Tamulis Hurls Brooklyn To
80 Win In Nightcap

BOSTON, Aug. 11-R-The Bos-
ton Bees and Brooklyn Dodgers
split a double-header today for an
even break in the four-game Sc.
ries, Boston coping the first 80
and Brooklyn coming back behind
excellent pitching by Vito Tamulis
to gain a 80 decision in the night
cap.
Lefty Joe Sullivan, who allowed
but three hits and permitted only
one man to reach third base in the
first six innings of the nightcap,
weakened in the seventh and the
Dodgers pushed their three runs
over in rapid order.
Dolph Camilli opened the session
with a walk and was safe at sec
ond on Joe Medwick's bunt. AL
hands were safe when Cookie Law
agetto hunted and the Bees tried
to get Camilli at third. Joe Vos-
mix scored Camilli with a single
to center and Nick Strincevich re-
lieved Sullivan. Babe Phelps bat
ted for 2ele Coscarart and famed,
but Jim Wasdell, hitting for Gus
Mancuso, singled to right scoring
Medwick and Lavagetto. Tamulis
ended the rally by popping to
Strincevich, who tagged Vosmik
for an unassisted double play.
In the opener, the Bees took an
early lead W h e Tex Carleton
walked Bill Posdedel with the
bases loaded in the second to force
in a run. Brooklyn tied it in the
seventh, when Lavagetto tripled
and scored on Coscarart's fly. Bos-
ton pushed over two runs in the
Bees half of the frame to gain a
lead that was never headed. l
First Camel
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Cardinals Score Double
Win Over Reds, 80, 81
Effective Hurting Of Cooper
And Warneke Ends St.
Louis Losing Streak

CINCINNATI, Aug. 11@R1The
st. Louis Cardinals ended a five
game losing streak by grabbing
both ends of a doubleheader 80
and 81 from the league leading
Cincinnati Reds today.
Effective hurting of M
Cooper and Lon Warneke turned
the trick enabling the Cardinals to
split a series of four encounters.
Cooper, the 26-year-old sopho-
more who was the strikeout king
OF the Texas league in 1888, allow
ed Cincinnati batters only two hits
in the opener.
In the fourth he permitted Bill
Werber to hit safely, walked Mike
and Frank No Cormick and then
pitched a ball which Ernie Lom-
bardi turned into a single to score
Werber and Nc Cormick. But for
that brief round he was complete
master.
The Cards counted a run off Paul
Derringer, who gave up six hits. in
the sixth on singles by Jimmy
Brown, a walk and Enos Slaugh-
ter's liner.
St. Louis took the lead in the
eighth. Terry Moore tripled and
ran home to tie the score when
Billy Myers relay to third found
no fielder there. Slaughter put
over the winning run with a homer.
The triumph robbed Derringer
of his 18th victory of the season.
Out of their slump, the Cards
grabbed two runs in the opening
end of the nightcap and led all the
way. Brown spanked the drive
with a double and Johnny Mize
singled to score him. Don Padgett
singled, scoring Mize and two sin
giles counted another run in the
ninth.
The Reds connected with War
neke's offerings for ten hits but
were able to put them on a paying
basis but once, in the fourth round
on singles by Bill Baker and Nor
RE Arnovich.
Jim Turner gave the Cards II
hits. The defeat put Cincinnati five
games ahead of the second place
Dodgers as Brooklyn split a dou-
bleheader with the Bees.
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YANKEES SCORE 7-6.
VICTORY OVER AS.
Gordon's 21st Homer In 18th
Inning Breaks Deadlock
For Champs Triumph

NEW YORK, Aug. 11.7R-The
Yankees swept their three-game
series with the Philadelphia Ath-
letics today when Joe Gordon
banged his 21st home run OF the
season in the 18th inning for a Z to
6 victory.
The Mackmen apparently had
sewed up the contest with a four
run outburst in the ninth, featured
by home runs by Joe Gantenbein
and Sam Chapman, but the Yanks
came right back in their half to
count twice and send the game into
extra innings.
Alley Donald, third Y a k e e
pitcher, gave a brilliant exhibition
after taking over in the 10th, fan
ming five and allowing only one hit
to get credit for the win.
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FAREWELL APPEARANCE

GOSHEN, N. Y, Aug. IL Up -
Greyhound, the handsome almost
white trotting gelding owned by E..
J. Baker of st. Charles, ILL.,, makes
another of his farewell" appear
ances here tomorrow and that is al
most enough to take the edge off
The Hambletonian stakes as the main
of Goshen's big week.
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Errors: Coscarart 2. Rowell. Runs
batted in: Coscarart, Medwick, Posede],
Cooney. Rowell. Two base hit: Miller.
Three base hit: Lavagetto. Sacrifice
Coscarart. Double plays: Walker and
Reest: Posedel. Miller and Hassett
Hassett, Miller and Hassett: Miller.
Rowell- and Hassett. Left on bases
Brooklyn s; Boston 8. Bases on balls
off: Carleton 8, Posedel 5. Strikeouts
by: Carleton 2. Casey 2, Posedel !. Hits
off: Carleton s in 6 1-3 innings: Casey
1 in 1 2-3; Posedel Z in Z 1-3; Coffman
/ in %. Passed ball: Phelps. Win
ming pitcher: Posdeel. Losing pitcher:
Carleton. Umpires: Sears, Jorda and
Dunn. Time: POI. Attendance: (esti-
mated) $4,000.