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New Reliefers. Duren and his National League counterpart, the Phillies' 24-year-old Dick Farrell, are helping change long-established ideas about relief pitchers. Traditionally, reliefers are crafty veterans who can pitch only a couple of innings, rely on cunning to get out of tight spots. Today Duren and...
Weapons of the Unarmed. It is Belle who lets the enemy enter no man's land. She falls in love, and brings home Hubby No. 2, a tall, wan, thirtyish lawyer named Maurice. Almost instinctively, Isa, Nathalie, and the demented sister proceed to devour Maurice's peace of...
To meet Dancer Adele Astaire, Kokoschka was taken backstage after one of her London performances of Lady Be Good (with brother Fred). She was the toast of Mayfair, and Kokoschka asked her to pose. Now 59 and the trim-figured wife of Wall Street Broker Kingman Douglass, Adele recalls that...
In literary London, where the vogue in controversy runs to turtlenecked highbrows and Angry Young Men, the latest brouhaha is whirling around an unlikely book by an unlikelier author: a mystery shocker called Dr. No, by an uppercrust Tory named Ian Fleming. The book marks the sixth appearance of James...
The publishers describe The Contenders as "a novel of character," and there they are right. The narrator is a beer-pudgy reporter, a jovial, middle-aging man named Joe Shaw. His real name is Clarence, but he is "everybody's uncle" and therefore Joe. Self-described as "an uncouth...