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While CBS was moving from the ballpark to meet rival NBC at the bookshelf, NBC itself was getting more involved with sports. Last week NBC President Julian Goodman in Manhattan and Golfer Arnold Palmer in Miami (he was there for the $100,000 Doral Open) let it be known that the network would buy five of Arnie's eight companies, including the multifarious Arnold Palmer Enterprises, Inc., of which he now owns 60%. NBC will also sign on President Palmer himself as an NBC sportscaster...
...sports announcer for a couple of Iowa radio stations. He had a crack ling delivery-so intense that he could keep his listeners enthralled with his account of a distant baseball game that Reagan would follow from the studio with the help of cryptic messages from a ballpark telegrapher and a fertile imagination...
...Like Ballpark Hot Dogs. Last week the old spa took on a fresh eminence with the opening of the Saratoga Per forming Arts Center, the most impres sive of the many new U.S. summer theaters. Nestled in a pine-fringed hollow, the center will be the summer residence of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet and Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra. The theater itself, designed by Manhattan's Vollmer Associates, is one of the world's largest, seating up to 5,100 inside and another 7,000 outside. People who perch on the upward-sloping...
Somehow Beethoven under the stars is, like a hot dog at the ballpark, relished all the more by virtue of the setting...
...games on Sunday, gave respectability to the sport. He lectured his players endlessly on strength of character and nobility of purpose. "Luck," he liked to tell them, "is the residue of design." He popularized "the Knothole Gang" and Ladies' Day-designed to attract a proper citizenry to the ballpark...