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These days, it seems, nobody wants to look like Hank Bauer except Hank Bauer. Certainly not Richard Nixon: despite a hereditary sparseness in front, his coiffure now rolls luxuriantly down the neck and trespasses on the ears. And certainly, certainly not Bobby Kennedy, who was once a neat trim but who lately resembles a sheep dog-or maybe a sheep. Presumably long hair is now a political asset, although Washington's most notorious tousle, Everett Dirksen, declines comment as "below the pale." Dirksen is at least known to have visited his barber before the 1952 Republican Convention, at which...
...subjects are not always happy about appearing there. Performers and athletes especially are wary; they keep remembering the so-called jinx that is supposed to hover over the careers of people once they have "made" our cover. One apparent corroboration of the jinx theory occurred in 1964, when Hank Bauer and his Baltimore Orioles seemed to have the pennant sewed up until Hank appeared on TIME. After that, the team lost half its games-and the pennant race. (Although two years later the Orioles won both the pennant and the World Series.) Then there was Leo Durocher, who made...
...games of the top until the All-Star game, we'll win," says Chicago Manager Eddie Stanky, whose White Sox trail the first-place Detroit Tigers by only 1½ games. "If we stay healthy, we've got a good chance," says Manager Hank Bauer of the defending champion Baltimore Orioles. And Boston Red Sox Manager Dick Williams insists: "We have the talent. There's no telling what will happen...
Harvard derived some consolation from winning the fifteen-point match, 8-7, with singles wins from Dean Bauer (eight) and Rick Sterne (ten) and doubles victories from Sterne and Kent Parrot (four) and Terry Oxford (five...
Bruce Wiegand (7), Dean Bauer (8) Kent Parrot (9) and Rick Sterne (10) fill out the Crimson lineup in the nonscoring slots...