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...fewer than five Tigerbelles won berths on the squad that travels to Rome next month. And with them, as Olympic coach, goes Ed Temple who, almost singlehanded, has assured the U.S. of its best female Olympic representation since 1932, when the U.S., led by Babe Didrikson, swept all but one of the six women's track-and-field events. Temple's credo: "I tell the girls, if we're gonna...
Pleas of Sympathy. Last week the jury of one Negro and eleven whites heard final characterizations of the chunky borough president by the defense ("a babe in the woods") and the prosecution ("plain cupidity"), and a lucid charge by Judge Joseph A. Sarafite. After filing into the jury room, they split wide open. Without once mentioning Jack's race (a sort of racism in reverse peculiar to hypersensitive Manhattan), they wrangled bitterly for almost 19 hours, finally deadlocked on all charges. "It was chaos," said one weary juror. "All we heard were pleas of sympathy for Jack...
...Timing his rhythmic swing perfectly, Ted Williams, 41, of the Boston Red Sox drove the ball over the left-centerfield fence in Cleveland for the sooth home run of his 22-year career, now trails only Babe Ruth (714), Jimmy Foxx...
...turned on the shower's hot water full blast, and while resting on his bed, converted the place into a steam bath in an effort to sweat off a few of his 250 lbs. But the amiable giant who furnishes the stuff for such stories is no modern Babe Ruth: he is Stephen Thomas Bilko, 31, one of major-league baseball's most fascinating flops...
...keep O'Brien from going to Rome this summer. As for O'Brien, he professes complete confidence that the plot against him will fail. "So the Old Champion is supposed to be tired," he says. "Well, he still responds to the thrill of competition. Looks like the Babe Ruth of track and field has to come up with one for the big show...