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...turned out, such advance calculations underrated the Yankees, and a. clownish-wise man named Casey Stengel, at 63 the most successful manager in baseball history. Manager Stengel and his Yankees were in no mood for a change; they were after a record fifth World Championship in a row. When the series ended this week, Stengel & Co. had their record...
...will take care of itself." Faith in an Old Habit. Brooklyn will need its power. In the American League, the Yankees have made the same kind of runaway; this week, by beating second-place Cleveland two in a row, they clinched the pennant with a 13-game lead. Manager Casey Stengel has a cool, battle-hardened pitching staff to throw at the Dodgers: Whitey Ford (17-5), Eddie Lopat (15-3), Vic Raschi (12-5), onetime National Leaguer Johnny Sain (14-6). Backing them up is the greatest money pitcher in either league: Allie Reynolds, who at 34 can still...
...Casey Stengel, going after his fifth consecutive World's Championship, is making no predictions. But neither he nor his team is conceding the Dodgers anything, and the Yankees have a habit of winning the big ones. Says Stengel: "I'm sick of hearing how great those Dodgers are and what they'll do to us in the World Series. We may fool a few people...
...brother-in-law, Aristotle Socrates Onassis, the Greek capitalist who bought the gambling casino at Monte Carlo and operates some 80 ships around the world (TIME, Jan. 19). Onassis has had six tankers, five Victory ships and one Liberty taken over. The group of corporations that ex-Congressman Joe Casey and Newbold Morris helped set up, and that touched off a congressional investigation of all the sales (TIME, March 3, 1952 et seq.) have had five ships seized...
...York he had sneezed -and his belt burst. He bought a new one, 40 waist. 'Used to be 48 chest, 38 waist,' he said. He bought a pistol: 'Good around camp for small game, friends and intruders.' . . . [Restaurateur] Toots Shor told of Hemingway and Hugh Casey, the late Dodger pitcher, trading blows while standing in an open doorway in Havana. A knockdown every punch. Papa won. He never even lost a tooth. 'Spitting teeth is for suckers,' he said ... He hailed a cab. 'Sutton Place South,' he told the driver, then spoke...