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...When I leave this here ball club in the fall, I want to leave a young team behind me." That was New York Mets Manager Charles Dillon Stengel talking, at a New York city hall celebration of Casey Stengel Day, one week in advance of his 75th birthday. What he said sounded something like English. And it sounded something like retirement. Since New Yorkers follow every stumble of Casey's spectacularly miserable Mets, the banners in the afternoon papers bellowed STENGEL TO RETIRE. For a while, the Mets' front office turned into a shambles of confusion and denials...
...money in time for one of his pet projects-buying Florida. In the 41st Congress, Ulysses S. Grant had a 56-to-11 majority in the Senate, yet could not get his own party to support his desire to annex Santo Domingo. And Franklin Roosevelt's overwhelmingly Democratic 75th Congress (1937-38) turned on the President and killed many of his New Deal bills because F.D.R. had autocratically tried to pack the Supreme Court with liberals...
Last week, without prior announcement to the staff, and just six weeks past Wally's 75th birthday, the parents of the Digest surrendered the month-to-month care of their creation to other hands...
...million and is expected to spend 10% more in 1964. Chase Manhattan Bank has a $500,000 collection of modern art and gives some $350,000 a year to educational and cultural projects. The Basic-Witz Furniture Co. of Waynesboro, Va., commissioned a concerto by Robert Evett for its 75th anniversary, and General Motors recently sent its employees 600,000 copies of two booklets: French Impressionism and Masterpieces from the Louvre...
...Madison Ave. at 58th. Fifty Picasso posters, many created for summer expositions in the little pottery town of Vallauris, France, near where he lives, include his many variations of toros, a spring bouquet sketched for U.C.L.A., and some of his wife Jacqueline. At Hahn, 960 Madison Ave. at 75th, are 15 paintings of another woman in his life, Dora Maar. The portraits run through Nov. 14, the posters through...