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...first inning, the 6-ft. 4-in., 210-Ib. righthander walked the St, Louis Cardinals' Alex Grammas with one out. After that, Chicago Cub Pitcher Don Cardwell, 24, acquired by trade just two days before from the Philadelphia Phillies, retired the next 26 men in a row for a 4-0 victory and the first no-hitter of the 1960 major league season...
...meetings with 21 representatives of natural-gas companies in less than two years. Kline insisted that the talks were "not only proper but necessary to a rapid and efficient performance of commission work." Some of the industry representatives, he said, were friends whom he golfed with and met at Cub Scout encampments...
Died. Clarence George ("Pete") Wellington, 69, longtime (since 1916) staffer of the Kansas City Star who rose to managing editor (1947-54) and executive editor (since 1954), received a rare accolade from onetime Star Cub Reporter Ernest Hemingway: "He taught me how to write"; of a heart attack, while on a Caribbean cruise...
...young poet who represents innocence against both its opposites is an egregious failure. He spouts fine writing of one sort or another almost every moment he is on stage, and makes himself constantly obnoxious by being out of period and out of it generally: a verbose, stupid, and mawkish cub...
Khrushchev established Son-in-Law Adzhubei on the staff of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda, watched approvingly while Adzhubei, rising with predictable swiftness from cub reporter to editor, turned the doctrinaire voice of Communist youth into a reasonably lively paper. In reward, Adzhubei last May was named editor of Izvestia (circ. 1.800,000), official organ of the Soviet government-and it, too, began taking on a new look...