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...interstate car-theft ring, many of The FBI's 40 million viewers turned the set off and rested peacefully. They had just received another hour of reassurance that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was still as effective as the G-Men who rounded up Dillinger, Floyd, Nelson and Barrow. Sure, some realized that the cases for the show were selected from the choicest FBI files--probably pre-selected to make sure that the epilogue didn't have the fugitives escaping on some illegal wire-tap charge or rubber-hose beating. But what we didn't know is that...
...Sure I would have been tempted to play out my option," DiMaggio told TIME last week. "After my fourth season I asked for $43,000 and General Manager Ed Barrow told me, 'Young man, do you realize Lou Gehrig, a 16-year man, is playing for only $44,000?' I said, 'Mr. Barrow, there is only one answer to that-Mr. Gehrig is terribly underpaid.' And then there was the season I hit in 56 straight games [1941]. When I came in to talk contract, I was offered...
...Barrow was the toughest man I ever met in my life," says another former Yankee star, Shortstop Phil Rizzuto. For the "Scooter's" first big-league season, the Yankees offered $5,000. Rizzuto got an audience with Barrow to complain: "I went into his office and he was sitting there, a big burly guy wearing a sweater with holes at both elbows. He was eating a ham sandwich. He looked up and asked me what I wanted. I told him I thought I deserved more money. He stared at me, then said, 'Sign...
...owner of an Atlanta chimney-and furnace-cleaning firm, Foster indeed was a fan. "He wasn't authorized by Turner to do anything except call me," laughs Osmond, "but he got carried away and made the deal." Turner blithely went along with it. And Ed Barrow turned over in his grave...
...weeks a convoy of 15 giant barges, each longer than a football field and carrying vital equipment for construction of the Alaska oil pipeline, had waited at anchor for strong winds to blow ice away from the shore line near Point Barrow. That would create a narrow navigation channel, enabling ice-free sailing to the pipeline's northern terminus at Prudhoe Bay. The winds finally came, and the convoy moved out. But the winds shifted unexpectedly and began blowing ice back into the path of the fleet. Last week the convoy was forced to retreat 30 miles to avoid...