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...Cincinnati Right-Hander Joey Jay, who had never won more than nine games in a season for the Milwaukee Braves be fore they traded him off last winter, became the first National Leaguer to win 20 games in 1961 by winning a 1-0 four-hitter from his former teammates. In the American League, Detroit's Frank Lary finally joined New York's Whitey Ford in the 20-game circle with a 3-1 five-hitter against Kansas City...
...weeks now, Teamster President James Riddle Hoffa has been working hard to lance the most painful of the infections-but the old surgical methods are not what they used to be. Jimmy's main target is Cincinnati, where Dairy Driver James Luken, 39, former president of the city's Joint Teamster Council, last month led four dissident locals out of the union (TIME, Aug. 25). Hoffa at first sent in a team of 30 lawyers, organizers and well-muscled workers from loyal locals-headed by Harold Gibbons of St. Louis, his national second-in-command-to bring...
That was clearly a mistake. At a recent press-conference debate with Luken, Hoffa seemed nervous and unsure in argument. And despite bales of advance TV and newspaper publicity, a monster rally of loyal Teamsters, with Hoffa as featured speaker, filled less than half the 3,800-capacity Cincinnati Music Hall. Last week, as the National Labor Relations Board began hearings on the new election that Luken wants, Hoffa and his handymen as much as admitted that the operation would take longer than expected: Gibbons set up a new regional office for the Cincinnati Teamsters-and took...
...with Service. The cut-rate operators have learned that, as Cincinnati Discounter Homer Brown says, "you've got to offer something besides lower prices." What they are promising is better service, though volume is still their stock in trade, and they sometimes seemed to be offering 25% off for rudeness. Big discounters such as the East's E. J. Korvette, Inc., New York's Friendly Frost chain, and Chicago-based Goodman's Community Discount Stores are opening new branches with piped-in music and fancier displays to shuck off "that warehouse look," adding such customer lures...