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...other and lean forward. Down on the field, leathery veterans turn away from their pepper games and sliding drills to watch. When the Los Angeles Dodgers' Frank Howard, 23, puts the power of his 6-ft. y-in., 240-lb. body behind the swing of his 37-in. bat, he can smash drives that make infielders repent choosing their profession, and send outfielders scrambling back to the orange groves. Says Dodger Coach Pete Reiser: "I've never seen anyone hit the ball like Howard, and I saw Kiner when he came up, and Greenberg in his prime...
...Hour of Great Mysteries (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The first of a series of classic mysteries adapted for TV. Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat stars Helen Hayes and Jason Robards Jr. Host: Joseph Welch...
...Montgomery, Ala., after a white man beat a Negro woman with a baseball bat in a sidewalk incident, 1,000 Negroes silently marched to the white-columned first capitol of the Confederate states to pray and sing the Star-Spangled Banner. In retaliation for the march. Governor John Patterson ordered nine Negro students expelled from Alabama State College, placed 20 others on strict probation...
...York Philharmonic programs spaced across the present season; six more NBC specials, including a Tammy Grimes show resulting from her success on Four for Tonight; a series of twelve "classical" mysteries, opening March 31 with Helen Hayes and Jason Robards Jr. in Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat; and a sort of living prospectus of Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (last month Saudek Associates was named the center's exclusive TV producers...
...they won, 65 to 45. The team's top star is cloud-capped (6 ft. 10 in., 210 Ibs.) Darrall Imhoff, who averages only 11.8 points per game. Says Imhoff: "Sure, I like making buckets, but I really swell up when I block a shot. If you bat the ball down a guy's throat on his favorite shot, he's going to choke up a little. And he just might not try that shot again...