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...Winning Team (Warner) is a bleacher biography of baseball's late great Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan). Like The Pride of St. Louis (TIME, May 12), the movie life story of Dizzy Dean, The Winning Team dramatizes the ups & downs of Alexander's career in conventional and sometimes fanciful screen style. Alexander is depicted going from his telephone lineman's job to Midwest minor leagues in 1908, making a sensational major league debut with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1911 (28 won, 13 lost), and later becoming a pitching ace with the Chicago Cubs...
...attracted some 17,000 to Madison Square Garden. This year, bellowed National Organizer Henry Winston, "Madison Square Garden was denied to the Communist Party." (It wasn't. The party did not even try to rent the Garden.) The faithful in 1950 wouldn't have filled one bleacher section in the Garden. The press was barred, and even the location of convention headquarters was kept secret until meetings were under way. "You know," explained one party hack, "we're not exactly popular...
Besides baseball, there were fireworks, blaring bands, clowns, bike riders, tightrope walkers balancing above the heads of bleacher fans, a ballpark nursery where mothers could leave the kids while the game was on. As a gag, he gave away live ducks, chickens and pigs. When it looked as though one of his pitchers, Don Black, might have to give up baseball after an injury, Veeck shocked some minority stockholders by giving him a chunk of the receipts from one of Cleveland's games-a handsome...
...Take. His appearance at the stadium was the Progressive Party's biggest rally. Receipts from tickets (50? for bleacher seats to $3.60 for grandstand) totaled $70,000. An hour of whipped-up fund raising produced another $60,000, which ushers carted out of the stadium in baskets. Since expenses cost $40,000 for the evening, the net was $90,000. Before the Stadium rally the Progressive Party's national committee had raised $451,000, spent $670,000. Campaign Manager C. B. Baldwin announced that the party intends to raise and spend $2,500,000 on the campaign...
...governor's office in Harrisburg, singly and in angry droves. To all, Big Jim had the same answer: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." After the tax bills had passed, he remarked to a friend: "Those bastards are so accustomed to getting their own way they make blueprints for their track and start scheduling trains over it right away. When the trains don't go through they're startled...