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Biographies in Sound (Tues. 9:05 p.m., NBC). Portrait of Babe Didrikson Zaharias...
Time was when pitchers got a better break. Before Babe Ruth taught club owners that home runs and high-hitting games mean cash customers, the game was played with a dead ball. Often when a home team took the field for the first time, they used a "refrigerator" ball, carefully chilled in the clubhouse icebox to make it even deader. There was no rule against spitballs, so with a cud of chewing tobacco or a wad of slippery elm, a clever man could keep the ball hopping all afternoon. After roughing up one side of the ball, pitchers used...
...Crimson jumped into the lead in the top half of the first inning when Bob Cleary walked and scored on Babe Simourian's towering triple to left center. John Getch then drove Simourian in with an infield out to give the Crimson a lead they never relinquished...
Admittedly, most of the '46 heroes are gone now. Of the three remaining, Al "Red" Schoendienst has had his driving license stamped "Restricted to Glasses," and Stan Musial has trouble loping in from the outfield. And poor Ted Williams, though still the most popular slugger since Babe Ruth, doesn't like to play on cold days...
...months before his mandatory retirement, Iggy still gets up at 4:45 in the morning, still reads pretty well through the works of St. Thomas Aquinas once a year. The door of his study is always open to students, and though he might call them "Butch" or "Babe" or "Toots," thousands have gone to him for advice. "A university," says he, "is not created by textbooks but by atmosphere-the consecrated service to students by teachers. I try to impress on the students that we are just trustees of knowledge for the benefit of others. That those with learning must...