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...Oregon last week, Lawyer Elmer Ryan, of South St. Paul, entertained the Stassen party with a recitation. Chubby Mr. Ryan, Stassen's former law partner and political strategist, romped up & down the aisle of the plane reciting Casey at the Bat. Elmer was the pitcher, the umpire, a bleacher fan, the great Casey himself. Candidate Stassen, exhausted by the Oregon campaign, sat back and roared. But when Lawyer Ryan finally intoned: "Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright . . . But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has 'Struck Out,' " Candidate Stassen subsided...
...says. But Big Jim, after hearing the Grundy man out, took his feet off his desk, stood up and roared: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time [that] I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." The tax bills passed...
...please move a little closer so more people can get seats?" The crowds hunched together on the planked seats, made room for more. At halftime, underdog Purdue left the floor, one point ahead of league-leading Wisconsin. As the crowd got to its feet cheering, one of the packed bleacher-stands sagged. There was the ugly rip of splintering wood; cheers died in people's throats, and instead there were panicky cries. The stand collapsed, bringing 4,000 fans down with it. The toll: three dead, 250 injured...
Rules & Responsibilities. When Terry decided to make him field captain in 1938, Ott objected: "Why Bill, I don't know the rules. How can I be captain?" Terry threw a rulebook at him and ordered: "Study them. You're captain." Soon Ott's bleacher friends, who always shouted advice to their favorite right fielder, noted the little difference that responsibilities made and began calling him Ottie. So did the players and the management. Then Terry quit the bench for a front-office job. The Giants' secretary, fidgety, coffee-drinking Eddie Brannick, had an idea: "God gave...
Divorced. Leland Stanford ("Larry'') MacPhail, 55, baseball's bleacher-lunged showman, now boss of the New York Yankees ; by Inez Thompson MacPhail, 55; after 34 years of marriage, five of separation...