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Friday, April 24, 1959
THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Page Five
At S«efi in TKe Mirror's
Rtf'-®
of Athletes
and Events
When Edward R. Murrow inter
viewed Clarie Ruth (the Babe’s
widow) on “Person to Person” the
other night, we got a tug at the
heart from one of the things she
said.
“I am proud of his great achieve
ments in baseball,” she remarked
with deep sincerity, “but most of
all I am proud of the fact that he
was a great human being.”
Mrs. Ruth isn’t the only Ameri
can who will always recall the
Bambino with warm affection.
Thousands who knew him, and
millions who would have liked to
have known him, are in that cate
gory.
That’s why no tanglible thing
that the editor of The Mirror pos
sesses is valued more highly than
a baseball autographed by Babe
on his death bed. And still prized
with the baseball is the autograph
book he signed 32 years ago for us,
when he visited New Bern after
clouting 60 home runs in a single
season.
These keepsakes, and the mem
ory of seeing Ruth in the stands
at Yankee Stadium in 1939, where
we did some special World Series
coverage for the Raleigh News and
Observer, made Ed Murrow’s in
terviewing of Mrs. Ruth doubly
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As one of the countless thou
sands who like to boast that they
had the thrill of shaking hands
with the Babe, we had to laugh
when Murrow and Mrs. Ruth dis
cussed an incident that emphasiz
ed the way all manner of people
felt about this.
“Babe was playing at Yankee
Stadium one afternoon,” the slug
ger’s widow said, “^nd an old man
called him over to his seat in one
of the boxes. The man asked Babe
if he remembered him, and re
minded him that they had shaken
hands in Chicago 12 years before.
“Of course I remember you,” the
Bambino lied for the sake of the
old man’s feelings, “and it certain
ly is nice to see you again.”
What this elderly fan didn’t
know was the Babe’s inability to
remember names—even the names
of ball players that he had been
in the same league with for years
and years.
Ruth called all of them “Pal.”
He was a pal in truth to many
people, but most of all to chil
dren. He did tremendous good for
underprivileged youngsters, no
doubt remembering his own days
in a Baltimore orphanage.
Sooner or later, some ball player
is apt to come along and surpass
the home-run record established
by this kindly man, who displayed
such courage on the eve of death.
But no one, in the annals of
sport, will ever be another Babe
Ruth.
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Dairy records are not just for
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For these small dairymen a sim
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system known as “Weigh-A-Day-A-
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While WADAM can be used for
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with a herd of 14 cows or less. The
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He also records the dates each
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as purchases, sales and deaths of
cows. He may include herd feed
records.
The completed forms are mailed
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to a designated computing service
where the records are calculated
and returned to the dairyman.
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Average butterfat production of
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