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Died. Larry Goetz, 66, granite-jawed National League baseball umpire (1935-57) who rarely lost a rhubarb by following his dictum. "You can't be a good guy and be a good umpire"; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. The old arbiter's rarest treat was once ejecting former Brooklyn Manager Leo Durocher before the game even began. Presenting his lineup, Durocher snarled: "What I said yesterday still goes." Replied Goetz: "And what I said yesterday still goes, too. Yer out of the game...
...Walter Thompson Co. into the world's biggest ($370 million annual billings) and most sedate ad agency as its president from 1916 to 1955 and board chairman from 1955 to 1961; of bleeding peptic ulcer; in Manhattan. An aloof man of utmost rectitude, Resor opened Thompson's Cincinnati office in 1980s and eight years later bought the firm from its namesake; shunning the flashy sell, his agency turned out solid, convincing ads for such blue-chip clients as Ford and Eastman Kodak, thrived on scientific surveys and the negative commandments-no whisky ads, no relatives on the payroll...
...Cincinnati Enquirer: "Having asked for and received in 1960 a Democratic Congress, he has found that is not enough...
...Cincinnati, the two Scripps-Howard papers are so independent that the chain does not consider Cincinnati a true monopoly, although it owns the only two dailies in town. The morning Enquirer has been a chain possession since 1956, but Publisher Roger Ferger does not go to the annual meetings (he is not invited) and does not receive the Washington-written editorials (he would not run them). Nor does the Scripps-Howard lighthouse beam from the Enquirer's masthead. The Enquirer endorsed Ohio Republican William O'Neill for Governor in 1958, the Post & Times-Star supported Democrat Mike...
Last year, the New Yorkers squashed the Cincinnati Reds in five quick games. The season before that, Pittsburgh stopped Casey Stengel's bunch in seven, but not before Bomber bats had scored more runs than any other baseball nine in series history. The Pirates triumphed in 60 by pouncing on such chronic Yankee weaknesses as shaky pitching and erratic fielding...