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...York Yankees' flinty Manager Casey Stengel got rained out of a big salute planned in Yankee Stadium for his 70th birthday. So he retired to the catacombs of Yankee Stadium for a slice of birthday cake and a stroll down memory lane instead, fondly remembering the day in the 1920s when he and some other big leaguers met Britain's King George V. Each player, upon being introduced to His Highness, was told to say: "I'm honored." The first few players carried off their lines perfectly. But not brash Casey Stengel. "When the King gets...
...symbolizing good behavior and pugilistic excellence: a jazzy gold crown peppered with diamonds, rubies and sapphires. Value, by D'Amato's estimate: $35,000. . . . Of all the U.S. ladies least likely to seem a homebody, Oldtime Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee is the sure choice to take the cake that she herself never baked. But last week it turned out that Gypsy wasn't just cooking with gas-she was making, of all things, clothes. Reporting a survey indicating that 37 million U.S. women make an average of 20 garments a year per family. McCall's Patterns...
...Wedding Cake. Last week he found a taker: the Uris Building Corp., headed by Brothers Percy and Harold Uris. New York's biggest builders, the Urises have studded the city with wedding-cake office buildings, shaped to fit tightly inside the New York building code "envelope" and provide a maximum of space and a minimum of aesthetics. Zeckendorf's sale price for the lease: $4,500,000. Uris brothers thought they had a good deal, since so much had already been spent in foundation work on the site. Whether Zeckendorf made or lost money and how much...
Died. Al Hoffman, 57, top Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist, a Russian-born onetime Seattle bandleader ("I was the world's worst drummer"), who minted-with various collaborators-Mairzy Doats, Heartaches, If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake, Takes Two to Tango, and Papa Loves Mambo; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...snatched from the Fujiyama hakoshi by burly Ikeda hakoshi, who bundled him into a waiting car and drove him to a plush, Western-style hotel (the paper-thin walls of Japanese inns might leak secrets). There a double room with bath awaited him and, on a bedside table, another cake-box stuffed with yen. Under guard until convention time, the delegate was at last safely counted as kanzume (in the can) for Candidate Ikeda...