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Mossadeq's Victory. U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady, who had tried his somewhat naive best to mediate, retired in wounded pride to await another chance. No one believed it would come. Bands of Mossadeq's burliest. National Frontists charged into Anglo-Iranian's Teheran offices, ripped down the company signs, shouted: "We nationalize...
Burleigh Grimes will long be remembered as one of baseball's burliest bully boys. As a major-league pitcher, his spitball was almost as famed as his spats with umpires. As a major-league manager, his particular brand of umpire-baiting made all his colleagues look like little Lord Fauntleroys. Last week Old Burley, now 47 and manager of the minor-league Grand Rapids Club, reminded baseball fans that he has not lost his stuff. For spitting tobacco juice in an umpire's face, he was banished from organized baseball for one year, the stiffest punishment a manager...
...Robert Wright Stewart, 62, is 6 ft., 1 in. tall, weighs 240 Ibs., and has four children. As a youngster he drove oxen on his father's farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now he plays golf and goes to prize fights. He is one of the burliest and most outspoken men in the public...