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...Gold Coast, every year gourmets, scholars jazz flends, and sleep lovers, who like to stay in bed until five minutes before their classes. Lover's of the a synthetic can enjoy the House's fine print collection and hundreds of classical recordings; athletes can paddle in the pool or batter the ball on Adams' private squash courts...
...Cake Batter. Nobody was working any harder to do it than Hearstling Pro Tern Fannie Hurst. Novelist Hurst, 60, wore a life-sized enamel calla lily, a jade ring as big as a crow's egg, and a jade-and-gold bracelet so heavy that she had to take it off to type her stories. Her journalistic style was equally flamboyant. She mixed metaphors as vigorously as a housewife mixing cake batter: "Even more than the cloak-and-dagger, who-done-it crime of 'grand passion,' the motives here involved strike, straight as the crow flies, into...
While in Boston, he took care of himself in another matter by dropping in to see General Manager Joe Cronin of the Red Sox. After a brief talk, slugging Ted Williams, baseball's best batter, signed a 1950 contract for the most money ever paid a big-league player, an estimated $110.000.* Mourned Brooklyn's tight-fisted Branch Rickey, who had just raised Dodger Stars Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson to alltime Brooklyn highs of $35,000: "In my 38 years . . . [in] organized ball this is the greatest inflationary period I've ever known . . . Even...
Raschi was in real trouble only once after the second. Gene Hermanski lined a base hit into right center in the fourth and get a triple when the ball took a freak bounce past Joe DiMaggio. Marv Rackley, the next batter, topped a slow roller toward second. Gerry Coleman raced in, gathered it up, and fired it to catcher Silvera just in time to nip Hermanski in a vicious slide...
There is an obscure baseball rule that no batter may deliberately make an out, so the Dodger hitters all assumed peculiar chop swings. Roy Campanella, who has not hit a ball on the ground since Bill Cunningham denounced the Red Sox, suddenly bounced to third. After Antonelli walked six foot five inches Newcombe on a series of high outside pitches, Reese proceeded to deliberately hit the most beautiful double play ball to shortstop Ryan that could be imagined, a soft line drive on one bounce...