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...good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming up has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do." See SPORT, Exit Casey...
...Like Casey. In Manhattan, Kennedy had another audience which, somewhat surprisingly, was not on his side. When he turned up for the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner at the Waldorf (a politician's command performance) in black tie and found Nixon in white tie and tails, he seemed so comfortable that Nixon was moved to comment that whichever man won the election would outlaw the agony of full dress. In his speech, Kennedy produced some spirited quips. Only the host, Francis Cardinal Spellman, he said, could have brought together at the same banquet table two political leaders...
...week-and Harris was swiftly fired. At that point, to the utter astonishment of all, the Yankees made a move that seemed as though General Motors had been delivered into the hands of a Keystone Cop. As their new manager, the Yankees chose baseball's buffoon: Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel...
...hardly necessary to chronicle Casey's twelve years as Yankee manager, years in which he guided the New Yorkers to ten pennants and seven world series championships. The sagacity and boldness of his diamond judgments have been unanimously lauded by players, managers, and fans; and his creation of "Stengelese" has endeared him to reporters and semanticists...
Perhaps Cleveland Amory '39 has best summed up the feelings of all of us who admire Casey and deplore the Yankees' treatment of him, when he declared in Wednesday's New York Times, "I think that the Yankee bosses are for the birds. I think they're about all the American public can take. I was not surprised; isn't it the way they've behaved for ten years? You can take the whole bunch--Topping, Webb, and Weiss--and dump them in the East River." James S. Gordon...