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Obstacle Course. In Denver, Emily Charleston, 73, bitten on the right ankle by a black and white mongrel, started walking home from the hospital after treatment, was bitten at the same corner by the same dog on the left ankle...
...major league baseball team is a precarious profession. This year, with the season just half over, four of the 16 managers have already toppled. First it was the Boston Braves' Tommy Holmes, who couldn't get his team out of seventh place. Then it was hard-bitten Rogers Hornsby, manager of the sagging St. Louis Browns. Next came Eddie Sawyer, who managed his Philadelphia "Whiz Kids" to a pennant in 1950, but could not get them out of the National League's second division this year. Last week Robert ("Red") Rolfe, onetime New York Yankee third baseman...
Last week it looked as if the city has finally bitten too hard. Rather than pay the extra taxes, Hugh W. Long & Co. Inc. and the Investors Management Co. Inc., which run four investment funds, moved their offices and $230 million in combined assets from their Wall Street skyscrapers to two private houses in Elizabeth, N.J. Thus they will save a total of $188,000 a year in New York city and state taxes. Explained one company official: "We were at a competitive disadvantage . . . there was nothing...
Gynecologist Kroger (a hard-bitten bachelor of 45) sees physiological evidence to support this idea in the large number of miscarriages, toxemias and other complications of pregnancy and labor which often follow long-standing sterility of psychological origin...
Veeck, a flamboyant gladhander, relishes the feud. Publicity-shy Saigh prefers to let his team do the talking. After Veeck hired hard-bitten Rogers Hornsby, an old Cardinal favorite, to manage the Browns, Saigh felt forced to retaliate by getting baseball's most colorful character. Saigh fired Manager Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion and hired Eddie Stanky. Veeck, who refuses to be topped, quickly hired Marion as a player-coach...