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Manager Whit Ford said that the Canadians were "a half a foot taller than us. That makes it easier to reach from side to side and means we had to play a craftier game," he explained...
...Amiable Bear. None of their schemes, however, is any craftier than the author's handling of material that is a bit light-fingered with both Huckleberry Finn and True Grit. An amiable bear of a man whose down-home drawl is deceptively similar to Long Boy's, Joe David Brown, 56, is a native of Birmingham and a former writer and correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Addie Pray is his fifth novel and his third to be sold to the movies (the others: Kings Go Forth and Stars in My Crown). Brown has a special feeling...
...Ferry,* an ex-newsman, ex-publicity man and former labor union official, got up before the Western states Democratic conference in Seattle to blast what he called some of the myths of modern America. Among the myths, said Ferry, was the one that pictured Communists as "nine feet tall, craftier than Satan, the most expert managers the world has ever seen, not human beings like ourselves but a race apart, determined to put man and God into jail forever...
Smarter than the cops, craftier than the crooks, too quick to be caught and domesticated by the classiest doll, TV's private detective runs second to only one competitor in the race for ratings. So far, in a season riddled with old scandals and new specials, the Cowpoke is still top draw, but the Eye has impressive fire power, and by year's end he may well be top gun. The TV tally sheet already lists 62 shows (network and syndicated) devoted to some variation of Cops & Robbers. Police detectives practice their profession on the networks only...
Some blame the fusillade on the "lively" ball, a contention disputed by Ball-makers A. G. Spalding & Bros., which has ordered a resiliency test to settle the matter once and for all. Craftier amateur physicists attribute the fence-busting to the fact that sluggers have shifted from the 52-oz. sledge hammer Babe Ruth once wielded to lighter. 30-to 32-oz. bats that whip the ball like a golf driver. Last week Dave Grote, National League pressagent who has been thinking about it. offered still another theory: today's hitters hit more homers because they are bigger, stronger...