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...Fourth victim of the annual baseball-manager shifts, Marty Marion resigned as manager of the third-place Chicago White Sox. Said "Mr. Shortstop" frankly: "They were not happy with my work." More happily, the Baseball Writers Association named the Manager of the Year: New York Yankees' Casey Stengel in the American League, George ("Birdie") Tebbetts, of the third-place Cincinnati Redlegs, in the National League...
...most promising officers of the U.S. Army. Two years later he graduated at the top of the Army War College, too. After the siege of Fort Leavenworth was won, there was a grand celebration at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, with Ike roaring out Casey Jones and Abdul the Bulbul Ameer and receiving a note of congratulation from another officer upon whom the hand of history lay. The Command and General Staff school must be good, opined Major George Smith Patton Jr., if "A he-man can come out No.1...
...Home runs by Mantle and Bauer pushed the Yankee total to six. By the eighth inning Sturdivant was obviously weary. Between pitches he fidgeted like a man with a mouse down his back. In the ninth, with one Brooklyn run scored and the bases still full of Dodgers, even Casey got the jumps. But Sturdivant struck out Pinch-Hitter Randy Jackson, got Junior Gilliam on an easy fly for the last out and a 6-2 victory...
Last season it was the Yanks who had a rough stretch struggle. They went into the series a sad and limping collection of invalids. This week they gave Manager Casey Stengel a firm grip on his seventh pennant in eight years, by brushing aside Runner-Up Cleveland 10-3. From here on in it will be all downhill...
...slow, yet readable account. It is duller, but more complete, than Hesketh Pearson's brilliant portrait (1950). And it firmly supports Shaw's claim to being the greatest dramatist in the English language since Shakespeare-a claim recently supported by his erratic fellow Irishman, Sean O'Casey. Wrote O'Casey in a memorable tribute: "Look at the Theatre as it was . . . So sob-sisterly, so stupid, so down to dust was the Theatre then that God turned his back to it, made for Shaw, caught him by the beard, saying, 'Go up, my Irish...