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...modern baseball history has ever finished last one year and won a pennant the next. But there has never been a manage like Leo Durocher, either. Gourmet gambler, clotheshorse, man about Hollywood, Durocher was one of baseball's most controversial characters when he managed the Brooklyn Dodgers anc New York Giants to three pennants in the 1940s and 1950s. "Nice guys finish last," was his famous motto. He was sued by a fan who claimed Leo had broken his jaw, and he was suspended for the entire 1947 season by Commissioner A. B. Chandler, who finally decided that...
...ILLUSTRATED HISTORYOFGERMANY by André Maurois. 295 pages. Viking $22.50. From the time of Arminius who destroyed three Roman legions in the dense Teutoburger Wald, to Germany's present-day resurgence, the country has been painted, sculpted anc dissected in words by friend and foe alike. Author Maurois, who has also done illustrated histories of France and England, is guardedly optimistic abou the German future, sees little likelihood of a new Nazism but warns that "Bismarckian nationalism always will remain a possibility...
...sight at all times, Director Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry) sets up a neat surprise or two and shows a marksman's instinct for knowing what to do with all that awesome western scenery-he pumps i full of high-gauge performances, guts ingenuity, flaming arrows, dynamite anc hot lead...
...sight of himself, he is a dude in his own parlor but usually a dud in anyone else's. Nonetheless, there is hardly a woman in the world today who can get along without him. Let her husband vanish, her housekeeper quit, her children join the Peace Corps anc her best friend move away; so long as ner hairdresser doesn't pull up roots, a woman feels secure...
...Justice Minister pointed out that, in common with South Africa's Liberal and Communist parties, NUSAS supports the maxim: "One Man One vote." The student organization has worked closely with the banned African National Congress, Vorster claimed. At the NUSAS convention in July Nobel Prize Winner Albert Luthuli, former ANC leader, was elected honorary president of NUSAS...