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...honored custom among ballplayers to brag loudest about what they do worst. So a pitcher who manages to beat out an infield roller struts around gloating, "Man! I really put the wood to it that time!" And Leon Wagner of the Los Angeles Angels confides: "I'm one of the best defensive outfielders in the game." At 29, Wagner may not be the game's worst gloveman (unlike Yogi Berra, he has never let a descending fly ball conk him on the head), but the tag of "Butcher" has stuck with him through three ball clubs and five...
...procession itself will form at 9:30 a.m. in the Old Yard. A special feature will be the arrival of the Governor of Massachusetts, Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42, in a horse drawn carriage reviving a pre-World War 1 custom. Peabody will be escorted from the State House on Beacon Hill to Johnston Gate, outside Massachusetts Hall, by the scarlet-coated National Lancers of Massachusetts. For the first time the Lancers will ride into the Yard itself, entering through Thayer Gate and parading around Memorial Church before the seated guests. Peabody and President Pusey will also speak at the Alumni...
...spite of his farm-bred love of land and custom. John XXIII was, in the best possible sense, a revolutionary-a Pope of modernization who kept in continuity with the church's past, yet made even the most enlightened of his 20th century predecessors seem like voices of another...
...elections. The great majority of citizens, both white and colored, either rent their land or own considerably less that $500 worth: in the last election only 234 of the town's 2,400 residents were eligible to vote for their mayor. They signed write-in ballots, as is the custom, and re-elected an aging Ford dealer who has been protesting his unwillingness to serve for most of his 30 year term...
...World gesture toward royalty, Manhattan's Regency Hotel ordered a custom-sewn flag of Monaco. Then arrived Princess Grace, 33, and Prince Rainier, 39, and suddenly everything went All-American. The Grimaldis wanted TV-and five sets were sent up, one for each room. Their usual breakfast order was ham 'n' eggs, with oatmeal for the children (Caroline, 6, and Albert, 5). When supplies ran short, Princess Grace herself would traipse off to a nearby grocery. The night she attended a posh art show, Daddy went to the circus-and the youngsters stayed home nursing colds...