European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Horatio Alger in a pair of spiked shoes Bob Feller writes the Story of his in strikeouts and Dollar signs strikeout by Bob 258 Bob who came off an Iowa farm to toe his first big league Mound at the Ripe old age of has turned his talented and expensive throwing hand to writer and has turned out a Surpris the whose first edition numbers fifty is expected to swell the coffers of which is Robert Feller spelled with Dollar Rofel is actually the corporation Bob has set up to handle the Many and various enter some Only briefly related to in which the owner of the mightiest Arm in baseball will engage this the income will be derived from things like breakfast food in pitching a Ball past Speed measuring taking a group of players on a postseason barn storming Gam winning of course pitching in the line of duty for the Cleveland the receipts should top the thus making rapid Robert the most profitable working ballplayer in the the Young Man who possesses such shrewd business acumen was born Twenty eight years ago on a farm in Van his to whom the Book is was the first to encourage Young Bob in his ambitions to play in the major and he gives Bis father much of the credit for his later when Bob was thirteen his father told you can throw hard enough to Knock a Bull apparently sharpened by the indians saw no reason to disagree with that statement when he shouldered his Way through a wheat Field for his first conference with who was mounted on a from that moment Fellers Bank been on the the Book goes on to relate Many of the High Points of Fellers his no hit game at the expense of the archrival with whom he had been feuding for some of the More memorable action on a battleship in the his courtship of the girl who is now his and a few closeups of professional All of is pretty much a matter of Public record and bobs own words dont add very much to what every american boy already the result is that strikeout Story Doest sound much different from any one of the old baseball Joe fifty cent boys probably the chief difficulty is that Fellers life just happens to have run right Down the Groove of the Horatio Alger Suc Cess and because the author has just tried to set Down the facts of this Story the Book lacks the sus Pense of Fellers big right Arm poised to Burn across that High hard Anna Seghers a German exile returns to help a bookends Berlin students last w month celebrated the first an Nual Day of the free marking the fourteenth anniversary of the original Goebbels boo burning it was especially fitting that one of the speakers should be an author whose works were High on Goebbels Anna All of whose books were banned by the had just returned to Germany after fourteen years of exile in France and while in Mexico City she wrote the bestselling the seventh a Story of flight from Hitler Ite she is now staying at the Casino on berlins observing the Impact of nazism and the War on the German she hoping to help a the most famous of Germany literary Thomas has chosen quite a opposite who had some accusing things to say about the spirit of postwar Germany on his arrival in London several weeks declared at the time that he didst plan to return to his native Mann will present his of Germany destiny in a forthcoming a Book he has described As a fictional biography of a modern German with Polit ical Knopf has just published a collection of Manns essays of three along the Assembly line Frederic whose last the was probably the most talked about Book of has delivered the manuscript of a new the Saxon to Rinehart for publication in sep the Saxon Charm is the Story of a theatrical group of Seattle housewives has formed a no collegiate Phi Alpha the letters stand for fatties the ten woman organization works on the basis that food to the fat is like liquor to the alcoholics the Phi alphas hold meetings and weekly the test includes a Large bowl of potato chips passed around during the the limit for fatties Anonymous is one Chip per meeting with the full bowl continuing to be Elies Clark of Doest believe in elaborate they Cost too an  retired explained he didst see any use in spending a lot of Money for a so he built his own at a Cost of three out of the family Organ the Organ wore out he after years of thumping by five rather than it on the junk he used it to build his Clark said he climbed into the homemade article to see if it Steve has about any kind of Cane he has one Napoleon gave to a marshal and another once owned by the italian his pet is a bootleggers stick its intricate makeup provides accommodations for a pint of liquor and drinking thirty coi operated washing machines have been installed in the plants of the Mohawk carpet Mills in new the idea to promote Goodwill among the employees and Cut was Day Absentee ism among women they Deposit their laundry at the Start of the Day and take it Home clean after Charles Clarks Hole in his shoe did him a bad then a Good Driver of a truck in struck two he told judge John Mathias he tried to but his shoe caught in the accelerator and made the truck suspended a gust of wind picked up Carl Mckee hat As he stepped from his car at Michigan City he asked his wife to waded up to his Knees into the Muddy and police waded in after but found Only his a search by officers knee deep in mud failed to recover Mckee two Days after his mysterious Mckee was a downtown Charles Wclay Tuoi caught in the Middle of a Busy Ohio thoroughfare when the traffic signal changed few years he started work on a traffic Sig Nal which gives both the Pedes Trian and Motorist an even he is promoting new traffic it looks like an Ordinary suspended traffic except that it has an extra Circle of Light around the Green the Circle of Light shows the Motorist just Hote much More Green he has left the signal turns against at least the Robins around new has become come Day the Robin starts pecking at the John Kellys had him for one full sunup to Carl Bishop has had the same and Floyd Beach at Miles away to Coyer the window panes with paper to convince the Robin he want two Cornell univer sity Laboratory men w Mckay and Robert also were after of annoy they coated Robins pet window with a cleaner that dried rub the cleaner in Mckay advised makes Robins Fred Erhard of Elpaso has chopped Down to size the fellow in the batwing Collar who stands in front of the movie theater and tells the customers that the features just started when usually its been on at least half an he has invented an electrical Gadget hitched to the the device automatically shows a red Chart in the lobby exactly How much of the has flickered across the screen and How much is left to it leaves nothing to the conscience of the double dealer out front in the Monkey suit the learns Yugo technique in according to Sam Uel Harmon is All he says thit activity de mands intelligent chairman of the sociology department of Bowling Green state University is doing the Gray haired father of two children introduced a sociology course at Bowling Green this semester devoted entirely to Lotorie is tenting a textbook on dating problems Uhi Chhe null encourage other universities to establish similar courses when Edgar Shannon observed his ninety fifth birthday in Haver he was asked the usual question As to How he reached such an age my Only excuse for such a Long he is that i was born such a Long time Small Black Mongrel could not become accustomed to his new neighbourhood in South each Day would be found in the part of town where his owners used to Doc was Back in his old neighbourhood when he was William she called the dog into her Home and telephoned docs Vern Butters put the Telephone to the dogs ear and Doc heard his Start for Home right you bad Doc jumped a foot in the dashed through a screen door anti seen in his old neigh boyhood no hit shutout of Yankees in 46 was High Point in the career of Bob pitching Here to Dimaggio in 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