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Veeck is the man who gave Cleveland fans a "bartenders' day," staged midget-auto races in the ballpark, and with a pennant winner (1948), posted a major-league record for season attendance that still stands. In St. Louis, he gave the fans clowns, once used a midget as lead-off batter (he drew a base on balls), even let spectators manage the team for several games by flashing "yes" and "no" cards to questions of strategy. Yet the carnival atmosphere was no substitute for success. The Browns did not win, and Veeck tried to get the franchise transferred...
...going to get run out of the ballpark, ' said Democrat Humphrey. "In fact somebody else might...
Died. Paul Beisman, 60, longtime manager of St. Louis' American Theater (36 years) and outdoor Municipal Opera (28 years), former president of the Legitimate Independent Theaters of North America; of cancer; in St. Louis. Beisman ran the huge, concrete "Muny" Opera like a ballpark, became an expert on what Variety calls the ozoning end of show business. As manager of the American Theater, Beisman was widely recognized for keeping non-Broadway U.S. theater alive...
...President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, the sloe-eyed little ballplayers were promised scholarships, better jobs for their hard-working fathers and a spanking new Little League stadium by enthusiastic Monterrey (pop. 499,000) citizens. It didn't quite work out that way. There were a few scholarships, but the ballpark is still in the talking stage, and the "better jobs" did not materialize. Coach César Faz had another problem. Over the fall and winter all but one of his boys passed the Little League age limit of twelve, and he had to recruit a whole new team...
...just as the world seems able to push from its mind the memory of the Abomb, so does Hiroshima itself. While the 30,000 pilgrims attended the commemorative service last week, nearly as many crowded into a nearby ballpark for a baseball game. As night fell, big bright neon signs flashed invitations to amusement centers. The broad Ota River glittered with floating lanterns, and fireworks burst their colored lights against the sky in celebration of the joyous Buddhist Festival of Lanterns. Adjoining the grisly Peace Memorial Data Hall in Nakajima Park is a modern, air-conditioned hotel that caters...