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...rubbery from 22 years on the mound, but he parlayed a new slider and an old pro's cunning into the best all-round record of any major-league pitcher. Spahn led the National League in complete games (21), earned-run average (3.01) and consecutive, victories (10), tied Cincinnati's Joey Jay for most games won (21). He also pitched a no-hitter-his second in two years. By season's end, Spahn had won his 30gth game, needed only 17 more to become the winningest lefthander of all time. With Maris and Mickey Mantle behind...
...pounded out 201 base hits and led the National League with a .351 batting average. In the American League, no competitor came within 37 points of Detroit's Norm Cash, who hit 41 homers and drove in 132 runs while putting together a .361 batting average. Cincinnati's Frank Robinson and New York's Mickey Mantle won the major leagues' "slugging" championships (figured on the basis of total bases instead of base hits); Homer-Hitter Maris wound up fourth behind Mantle. But Maris-the A.L.'s Most Valuable Player for the second year...
Liturgy has brought significant changes to church architecture (TIME, Dec. 26, 1960). In Boston Unitarians are moving their pulpits from a central position to one side, placing the new focus on the Communion table. In Cincinnati's new Kenwood Baptist Church, a Communion table surmounted by a wooden Cross is at the center, with the pulpit off to one side. "This is unusual for Baptists," admits the pastor, the Rev. J. Stanley Mathews. "It's a move on our part to create a worship center and a dignified approach to worship." The First Baptist Church in Washington...
Died. William Ellsworth Hoy, 99, baseball's oldest former major leaguer who between 1888 and 1902 played for the Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox; of a stroke; in Cincinnati. Deafened when two years old by spinal meningitis, Hoy did not learn to speak till his wife taught him at 36, retained a lifelong preference for sign language, and in the blunt innocence of a bygone age was affectionately dubbed "Dummy" by his teammates...
...Cincinnati, State Representative Robert A. Taft Jr., 44, son of the late Republican Senate leader, grandson of President William Howard Taft and an avowed Nixon-type Republican, announced that he will run for Congressman at large in Ohio next year. His father also began his political career in the Ohio legislature-and "Young Bob" hopes to follow him to Washington with a hard campaign stressing "individual liberty" and criticizing President Kennedy's foreign policy...