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Died. Glenda Farrell, 66, actress; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Often cast as a tough babe with hair and heart of gold, Farrell began her screen career as a gangster's moll in the 1930 film classic Little Caesar. She went on to wisecrack her way through scores of Hollywood movies, including I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1937 and the Torchy Blane series. Weary of being typecast, she made a deft transition in the 1950s to motherly roles on television and Broadway...
...playing field. After retrieving the ball, Third Base Umpire Paul Pryor was presented with a card that read: "I caught Hank Aaron's 600th home run." It was a souvenir worth keeping, for Aaron had just set a career mark surpassed by only two other players-Mays and Babe Ruth...
...impossible feat for a slugger who has averaged 38.8 homers in the past five years. Many baseball men agree with Las Vegas Oddsmaker Jimmy ("The Greek") Snyder, who rates Mays as a 4-1 shot and Aaron as an even bet-barring injuries, of course-in the Babe Ruth derby...
...above all, in Asia, table tennis is definitely a big-league sport and sometimes a national obsession. Japan, which began to dominate international competition shortly after World War II, has an estimated 40,000 tournament players. Former Japanese table-tennis greats like Ichiro Ogimura are as revered as Babe Ruth was in the U.S. In the early 1960s the Red Chinese also moved into the top world ranks. Now some 100 million Chinese play the sport, and one plant in Canton alone produces 70,000 balls a day. Premier Chou Enlai, himself a buff, urges the Chinese to excel...
Kasko had reason to be optimistic because the Red Sox looked like a Big Red Machine that could mow down the American League this spring and even get the Oriole dynasty chirping for mercy. George Scott, in particular looked like the Babe Ruth of the '70's as he pasted the ball twice into the parking lot. Scottie had the wheelerdealers who talk of a "Frank Howard trade" tongue-tied...