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...forgive and forget. So what if the Dodgers tied for sixth place last year. That was a fluke. Now Johnny Podres was fogging in fastballs the way he used to in the old Brooklyn days. Leftfielder Tommy Davis, whose batting average plummeted to .275 last year, was hitting like Babe Ruth in the Grapefruit League. Maury Wills was stealing every base in sight, tied down or not. And how about Sandy Koufax? "My arm feels perfect," proclaimed Lefthander Koufax, who celebrated by pitching two complete games and striking out 15. Bookmakers installed the Dodgers as 2-1 favorites...
Died. William Bendix, 58, comic and character actor, whose fireplug face and concrete-mixer voice stole the show in more than 50 Hollywood productions (The Hairy Ape, The Babe Ruth Story) and on TV's The Life of Riley, a series about a dopey factory riveter that so tickled the viewers it ran for eight years, bringing Bendix some $3,000,000 in salary-which, as he put it, "isn't bad for a guy who was on relief in 1934"; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
Culpepper's play will be the second drama by a Harvard undergraduate, and only the third by an American, to be presented on the Loeb main stage. The first undergraduate play was Thomas J. Babe, Jr.'s The Pageant of Awkward Shadows, which won the first Anderson award two years...
...Texas' 13th District in 1951, it was at Lyndon's behest. Jenkins finished second in a field of eight candidates, was probably hurt by the fact that though he was raised a Baptist, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1947, two years after his marriage to Marjorie ("Babe") Whitehill, a Catholic...
...Dirtiest Trick. The humiliation was total - because the Yanks had no excuse. They outscored the Cardinals 33 to 32, outslugged them ten home runs to five. Outfielder Mickey Mantle clouted three homers to run his Series record to 18 (the old mark: 15, set by Babe Ruth); Bobby Richardson clicked out 13 hits to break a 39-year-old mark. Cardinal pitchers had an earned-run average of 4.29 (v. 3.77 for the Yanks), and Star Reliever Barney Schultz staggered through the Series with an ERA of 18. But St. Louis won-and with the most exciting display of guts...