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...money. Short's first gate-building move and a good one-was to sign Ted Williams as the Senators' manager. But last fall, overriding Williams' objections, Short traded half of the team's infield and $80,000 to get Denny McLain, Detroit's bad-boy pitcher. McLain reciprocated by becoming this season's first 20-game loser. As the Senators disintegrated from a mediocre but interesting ball club to a bad but uninteresting one (they are currently 33 games out of first place in the league's Eastern Division), home attendance dropped from...
...These writers demand attention with a maverick, inventive, acidulously adult outlook that delights in salting the sores and needling the niceties of the megaton-megalopolis age. They deserve notice because their brand of comedy is so clearly not the saccharine hilarity packaged by commercial laff merchants not the bad-boy snigger of contemporary bedroom farce. Nor does it necessarily appeal even to sophisticated tastes; it is for those who prefer mountain brooks to mainstreams. But it is strong, dark laughter, echoing-if not equaling-the bitter merriment to which other ages moved Juvenal, Rabelais and Swift...
That inferiority complex betrayed itself in many New York papers, last week, from parenthetical bad-boy chuckles to grandiose editorial anathema, in stories of a tilt between John Pierpont Morgan and ship-news reporters and cameramen, aboard the Olympic, docking 16 hours late from Southampton...