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DIED. Ernie Shore, 89, who earned a small niche in baseball history by relieving Babe Ruth on the mound and pitching a virtually perfect game for the Boston Red Sox in 1917; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Ruth, then a pitcher, walked the first Washington batter, then was ejected for arguing with the umpire. After Shore came in, the base runner was caught stealing. Shore retired the next 26 batters and narrowly missed joining the eight pitchers who have thrown complete perfect games (facing 27 batters) since...
...next eight years Bryant was head coach at the University of Kentucky. In 1950 the school won its only outright championship of the Southeastern Conference. He was demanding. All-America Quarterback Babe Parilli, who later played with the Boston Patriots, recalls preseason training camps that began at 5:30 a.m. with orange juice and proceeded to head-on tackling drills at 6 a.m. He also remembers Bryant's coming into his hospital room the day after Parilli underwent surgery and throwing a stack of new plays on the bed. The plays were designed to let Parilli stand back...
...Olympic Track and Field Trials have traditionally been the first step on the road to medaled glory. Newcomers became stars and stars household words during the quadrennial head-to-head competition to select the members of the American Olympic team. In the 1930s, Babe Didrikson and Jesse Owens came to national attention at the Trials, foreshadowing the performances that made the 1932 Los Angeles and 1936 Berlin Games memorable. Last time, a hurdler named Edwin Moses set an American record in the 400-meter hurdles. He went on to etch a world mark at Montreal in 1976 and has since...
Shirley Hufstedler is learning to adapt to the changing requirements of her environment. With the initial building stages of the Department of Education well under way and seemingly in control, Hufstedler has already come a long way from the babe-in-the-wooods stage that many predicted she might languish in for the balance of her career. The bureaucractic teeth Hufstedler has pulled thus far, as she readily admits, are just the beginnings of the business of being a Cabinet secretary. With any luck and agood deal of support from below, Hufstedler may defy the experts and the critics...
...tell you what I'm thinking. When I was in school in the 1930s, I wanted to make the hockey team. I went out in the moonlight and practiced hockey. Another boy, he'd shoot at me. Well, I made it, babe, but I was out night after night after night, practicing. It's the same way in business. Only something that you start working on today will pay off in five or ten years...