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...supposed to be a party in honor of New York Mets General Manager George Weiss, but former Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick stepped to the microphone in St. Petersburg, Fla., and announced: "Charles Dillon Stengel has been unanimously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame." Observed Casey, who retired last summer at 75 as manager of one of the most awful teams in the history of the sport: "Amazin...
...Casey Stengel has been named to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The voluble old baseball great was chosen by a unanimous vote of the 11-man baseball veterans nominating committee last night...
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...play does more than dabble in sentiment. It is wet with it. But Playwright Friel frequently and expertly applies the dry saving sponge of humor. Without O'Casey and Joyce, the play might have existed, but not so good a play. Friel utilizes reverie, flashback, and stream of consciousness, but his cleverest device is to divide Gareth O'Donnell into a public and private self played, respectively, by Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly. This palpable alter ego, invisible to the other characters, acts as a jazzy Greek chorus, a human pep pill, and a court jester. He laughs...
...strength of the Vietnamese rail road lies with its plucky engineers, Oriental Casey Joneses who have spent as much as 20 years red-balling the route from Saigon to Hue. Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon...