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...setting a new major-league record for a lefthander. The old record, held by Rube Waddell, had stood since 1910. Spahn went on to post his 14th win of the season, against only five losses. "You always think about records being set with a big, dramatic act," he said afterward. "Instead, I get the pitcher on a called strike. But I'll take it." Other records he has taken: more wins (341), more shutouts (56), more 20-game winning seasons (12) than any other lefthander in history. Retire? "I'll never quit," said Spahn. "They'll have...
...NAACP's national experts on educational matters attended the meeting last night, and afterward charged that the Boston School Committee was the only such board in the country to refuse to recognize the existence of de facto segregation in its school system...
...because her mother-in-law was incapable of making such an arduous trip, Mme. Nhu was granted a safe-conduct pass to a nearby village. With her child and the old woman, Mme. Nhu holed up in a convent in the village until the French forces arrived. Shortly afterward she was reunited with...
...jurors had also decided that, by definition, leggy, red-maned Christine Keeler, 21, and blonde, baby-faced Mandy Rice-Davies, 18, were prostitutes.* If either was dismayed at being formally branded a whore, neither showed it. At the London premiere of Cleopatra and an otherwise exclusive buffet supper afterward, Mandy in a brief blue gown that was designed by herself (and looked it) stole the limelight...
...goal already to his credit, was hard on the attack when his left elbow was slashed by another player's loose bridle. Pausing only for a hasty bandaging, he re-entered the game and scored another goal, helping his Windsor Park team to a 12-5 victory. Afterward, it took three stitches to close the wound. Next day he was back again, and though his team lost, he could be well pleased, as he toweled off after the match, with what critics called "a capital galloping game...