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...depending on the strength of visiting teams, and once gave away six pigeons to an elegant fan simply "to answer the burning question of how a dignified man would hold on to six squab while watching a ball game." The son of a sportswriter who became president of the Chicago Cubs, Veeck planted the first ivy at Wrigley Field and once sent a letter to Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis warning him that the reserve clause was doomed. He invented season tickets and bat days, and started the practice of printing players' names on the back of their uniforms...
Veeck, who genially described himself as a hustler and publicity hound, owned major league teams four times: the Browns, the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox (twice). His usual approach was to buy a rundown franchise, spruce up the ball park, then operate the team on the cheap while raising cash through promotions. Veeck had firm theories on how to promote. If you want to give away 50,000 beers, he once said, give them all to one fan--it will generate far more interest and conversation...
...Victorian tradition permeates the work of North America's most celebrated Shakespeare troupe, Stratford Festival Canada, which is making its first U.S. tour in 13 years, with a repertory of Twelfth Night and King Lear. The shows have played to nearly sold-out houses in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and Palm Beach, Fla.; are running in Fort Lauderdale for most of January; and will finish in Washington on Feb. 2. Founded in 1953 by Tyrone Guthrie, the Stratford company prides itself on echoing the style of Britain's Old Vic of the 1940s, which in turn derived from an earlier...
...fastened onto one another for long seconds as the reel flickered on. Their kiss suggested not so much the heat of passion as a mishap involving dry ice or Krazy Glue. Still, The Kiss passed for erotica. It created a sensation and called down the eloquent wrath of a Chicago publisher named Herbert S. Stone, who wrote, "The spectacle of their prolonged pasturing on each other's lips was hard to bear ... Such things call for police interference...
...Music A spirited production of Puccini's La Rondine in Chicago shows that this sophisticated work ought to join the main operatic repertory...