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...Towering (6 ft. 6 in.. 205 Ibs.) Don Drysdale (13-6) is the ace of a slick young pitching staff, and Third Baseman Jim Gilliam (.318) always seems to be on base. But the biggest man of all in the Dodger infield is that old pro-and beloved Brook-lynite-First Baseman Gil Hodges, 35, who can still field like a vacuum cleaner and at .293 put the ball game away with his bat. Last week in the first game against the Giants, he slammed a two-run homer; in the second, he slapped a game-winning double. Later...
Mark Twain Tonight! The reports of Mark Twain's death have been greatly exaggerated. The great humorist is delightfully alive as a platform lecturer of 70. The brilliant lookalike: Actor Hal Hoi-brook...
Lord Beaverbrook holds other grudges against Mountbatten. He blames him for planning the ill-starred World War II raid on Dieppe, in which 3,369 of Beaver-brook's fellow Canadians were casualties. But the feeling goes deeper. Noel Coward's wartime movie In Which We Serve was built around his friend Mountbatten's own heroism as commander of the destroyer Kelly. Beaverbrook blames Mountbatten for not getting Coward to delete a shot of drowning sailors, in which a copy of the Daily Express floats by, with its famed 1939 headline: THERE WILL BE NO WAR THIS...
Under a white birch tree near a brook sat a young man writing poetry. Occasionally, when the words on paper somehow refused to echo the music in his mind, he wept. The place was Molodi, a village 38 miles from Moscow, and the time was the year of peace 1913. The quiet gardens surrounding his parents' summer house, legend had it, had once served as a battlefield for the Czar's Cossacks and Napoleon's retreating French. Near by, graves dotted the ground...
...Ford station wagon. Two sheriff's deputies, on duty at the plant, spotted the two cars pulling away, decided to go after them. Half a mile away, the deputies came across Dugan's parked car. Nearby, they found Dugan's body, sprawled face downward beside a brook. He had been shot in the back. As police reconstructed the shooting, Dugan, unarmed this time, ran away when White drew his pistol, and White pursued him, firing his seven-shot .32 automatic until it was empty...