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Strom, then 44, and catching his breath for the moment, had time for other matters, particularly pretty Jean Crouch, 21-year-old daughter of an old family friend. He appointed her "Miss South Carolina," to preside over Charleston's Azalea Festival; he brought her to the mansion to serve as his personal secretary. One day he dictated to her: "My darling Jean . . . Loving you as much as I do ... I want you to be my wife without too much delay . . ." She retired to the next room and typed out her acceptance...
...Ankles. Lou Boudreau (rhymes with mud row) himself was the red-hottest Indian of them all. Despite a slight banquet-season paunch, Lou was batting a phenomenal .519 from his unorthodox crouch and was leading the league in runs batted in. Afield he looked a little slow (his brittle ankles were troubling him again), but he still had the uncanny knack of outguessing the ball that made him the league's top shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished...
Married. J. Strom Thurmond, 45, balding bachelor Governor of South Carolina; and Jean Crouch, 21, his ex-secretary (whom he crowned Miss South Carolina at the Charleston Azalea Festival last April); each for the first time; at the Governor's mansion in Columbia...
...biggest difficulty is trying to forget that he is a shortstop. Fielding ground balls, he scoops them up as if he had a quick throw to make. And because he does not crouch down to block the ball, a lot of grounders dribble between his legs. He also can't seem to break his habit of catching put-out throws two-handed. The Cardinals' Stan Musial, for example, gets a far longer reach by taking throws singlehanded...
Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, strolling to a political meeting beside Britain's River Crouch, saw a little girl fall from a jetty. He ripped off his Savile Row jacket and plunged in after her. But a dinghy got there first. Sir Hartley rose from the waters, a study in frustration and soggy drawers. He addressed the meeting in borrowed pants and an old sweater, to which hecklers were especially attentive...