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Late Practice. One of seven sons. Lary comes from a pitching family; six of the Lary boys were pitchers in high school, college or professional ball; the seventh caught all the brothers. Lary's father, a cotton farmer in Alabama's red-clay country, set up a pitcher's mound and a plate in the front yard, made all his sons practice after their chores. After two years at the University of Alabama. Lary quit college to sign a contract with the Tigers, joined Detroit in 1955. won 14 games in his rookie year. The next season...
...world records are not recognized. ¶ In a head-bumping fandango at Seattle, light-hitting Harold Johnson, the National Boxing Association's light heavyweight champion (recognized in every state except New York, Massachusetts and California, which prefer Archie Moore), won a 15-round split decision over Challenger Eddie Cotton. Johnson's guaranteed purse of $20,000 was the biggest he has ever won in 14 years of professional boxing...
...Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this comic author loves to unstuff shirts, unstarch pomposity, and rip the cotton batting out of fuzzy minds. In her latest novel, an aging, 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier's ivory tower...
...they knew just how to find them. Towed to 2,000 ft. by powered aircraft, the sailplaners looked first for a "salad bowl"-a cluster of rising sailplanes already airborne and circling slowly, as if stirred by some giant ladle. Failing that, the entrants looked for the big cotton bolls of cumulus clouds-the typical sign of updrafts-or for wheeling hawks, those skillful natural riders of the wind. Having hooked a thermal, the sail-planers got from it every last inch of altitude, then drifted off on the distance runs...
Most of Dresden's 492,000 people live in the relatively unbombed suburbs or in cheap, monotonous rows of Communist prefab houses. Most of the men wear cardigan jackets and cuffless cotton pants, since East German suits are both shoddy and expensive. In contrast, the women are relatively well dressed. They make their own clothes, closely follow West Berlin's latest fashions...