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Tiger by the Tail. Born in a Manhattan tenement district and raised in Queens, Ford burst upon the Yankees in the middle of the 1950 season, a brash 21-year-old with strawberry-blond hair, flashing blue eyes and an asphalt-seasoned sense of humor. He had tried out four years earlier as a first baseman and, after being told that he was too scrawny, turned to pitching in a tough sandlot club until a record of more than 20 wins earned him a $7,000 bonus to play Class C ball for the Yankees. As a rookie...
Died. Rear Admiral Ellis Mark Zacharias, 71, brash, bristly intelligence and psychological warfare expert, a self-styled World War II Cassandra who claimed to have predicted Pearl Harbor nine months in advance, and to have ferreted out a Japanese surrender feeler 13 days before Hiroshima, yet never convinced the Navy's topside of either story; of a heart attack; in West Springfield...
...William Sloane Coffin Jr., 36, last week became the first white Northerner to organize his own Freedom Ride. Brash, athletic Presbyterian Minister Bill Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, has never lacked for privileges of his own (his father was vice president of Manhattan's high-priced home furnishings store, W. & J. Sloane). He is married to the actress daughter of Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Coffin majored in government at Yale, served as a liaison officer with French and Russian troops during World War II, later worked as a Russian expert for the Central Intelligence Agency after studying divinity at Union...
...peasant's hut in the Ukraine on Nov. 7, 1917-the day the Bolsheviks took power. Polyansky missed the confusions and disorders of the civil war and forced collectivization, graduated from the Kharkov Agricultural Institute, then rose steadily through the party's administrative ranks. He is a brash and bouncing extravert. At Kremlin functions, Polyansky does not stand around stiffly with the other Presidium members making small talk with diplomats; he table-hops around the hall, mingling with rank-and-file party functionaries, slapping backs and trading wisecracks...
...appears we could ill afford the democratic luxury of electing a brash and youthful visionary without top-echelon experience to lead the free world in these critical days...