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Have you noticed that baseball players are getting better looking? The old style -- paunchy Babe Ruth, ferrety Bob Feller, the sunken Dust Bowl visages of players in the '30s -- has surrendered to today's sleek, chipper California look. Keith Hernandez, Dave Righetti, Jose Canseco, Dale Murphy, Rafael Palmeiro and a hundred others have the handsomeness of soap-opera stars. And their fine swagger italicizes the sexiness of contemporary sport. These guys know they're the studs of summer...
...lost," says Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan of the 1938 navigational blooper that earned him a place in aviation history. Leading a parade last week in Hempstead, N.Y., to mark the 50th anniversary of the nearby Cradle of Aviation Museum, the chipper Corrigan, now 80, accepted an altimeter symbolizing his famous flight. The young airplane mechanic took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, heading for California in his rickety Curtiss monoplane. With nothing guiding him save his taste for adventure and his temperamental compass, Corrigan landed some 28 hours later in what he thought was Los Angeles...
...again secure. Several aides say the haunted, hunted demeanor that Regan displayed in the early days of the controversy receded after a Dec. 11 meeting with the President. Regan "hasn't told anybody what happened in the talk," says a White House staff member, "but he's been very chipper since then...
...very chipper way to welcome the Christmas Season. Has the life of a reviewer been all that...
...Queluz Palace last Friday, a chipper Reagan held a press conference ) to mark the end of his European journey. White House Aide Michael Deaver had called it "without question the hardest trip of his presidency," and Reagan admitted "some anguishing moments" along with "many highs." Declared he: "We are returning home, mission accomplished...