Word: casey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Mets Manager Casey Stengel, in Manhattan, after an operation to repair his left hip, fractured when the Perfesser slipped while alighting from a taxi during the scheduled week-long celebration of his 75th birthday; former Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda, 65, in Tokyo, with aftereffects from the radiation treatment used last November to rid him of the nonmalignant throat tumor that forced him to resign the premiership; Barry Goldwater, 56, in Phoenix, after a four-hour cervical laminectomy to repair an old injury to vertebrae in his neck...
...When I leave this here ball club in the fall, I want to leave a young team behind me." That was New York Mets Manager Charles Dillon Stengel talking, at a New York city hall celebration of Casey Stengel Day, one week in advance of his 75th birthday. What he said sounded something like English. And it sounded something like retirement. Since New Yorkers follow every stumble of Casey's spectacularly miserable Mets, the banners in the afternoon papers bellowed STENGEL TO RETIRE. For a while, the Mets' front office turned into a shambles of confusion and denials...
Spahn's ambition backfired with No. 360. His fastball lost its flash, his sliders hung like floaters. Just about everyone, including opposing pitchers, tore him apart. "They jump on him so fast I can't do anything," sighed Manager Casey Stengel. Spahn lost eight games straight, and other Met pitchers complained as well that he pulled rank as coach to take extra turns on the mound in his vain attempt for a victory...
Marriage Revealed. Vincent Edwards, 37, TV's surly, suture-self surgeon (Ben Casey); and Kathy Kersh, 22, a Rheingold Miss (1962) turned TV actress (My Favorite Martian); both for the first time; in Hollywood last month...
...known by his fans as "the Fifth Beatle," and has been included in the Beatles' impending movie), he should know what's happening. His show for Sarge's Office of Economic Opportunity had almost as big a rating as the two opposing programs (Ben Casey and Alfred Hitchcock) combined. What next? How about a rumble, televised live...