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...Pitchers Tex Hughson, Dave Ferriss and Mickey Harris combined to win 62 games. Last year the Red Sox ranked last in the American League in pitching and fielding, and second sloppiest in stranding base runners and grounding into double plays. The only thing that saved them from the cellar was the New York Yankees-by the slim margin of half a game...
London hasn't known such excitement since 1901, when Edward VII discovered that Queen Victoria had overstocked on fine sherry (he preferred champagne) and ordered 5,000 bottles from the royal cellar put up for auction. Reviving a pleasant pre-World War II custom, London's leading auction houses have recently added vintage wine to their stock in trade. It has turned out to be a bonanza. Before the year is out, Sotheby's and Christie's expect to move more than $1,000,000 in vintage wine, and prices for rare 100-and 200-year...
...about his friend Jose Torres, the light-heavyweight fighter who keeps losing. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wants to shut up about Viet Nam but they bug him with it. And there's Charles Addams and David Merrick and maybe a thousand other names all jammed in this Manhattan cellar raising money for the Paris Review, which practically none of them reads but which George Plimpton, 46, edits when he is not sparring with Archie Moore or playing football and writing books like Paper Lion. "Everything George touches turns to gold," says one writer, looking around. "That...
Outlandish Guests. To put it all into practice, Johnny launched an afternoon TV variety show, first for a year and a half over WOW-TV in Omaha, then in Los Angeles. "KNXT cautiously presents Carson's Cellar," he used to say. Thirty weeks later, KNXT threw caution and Carson to the winds, and he fetched up as a writer for Red Skelton. One night, during a preshow rehearsal, Skelton got a concussion bonking into a "breakaway" door, and Writer Carson went on in his place. With assurance and finesse, he laid out an ad-lib monologue mocking the economics...
...Crimson will open their Eastern League season this Saturday, playing Princeton away. Harvard and Princeton are both aiming to escape the League cellar, where they finished last season...