Word: del
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back for another tilt at four-term Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts, 55, and his well-greased Democratic machine is Providence Attorney Christopher Del Sesto, 51, who almost turned the trick two years ago. After all votes were counted in 1956, Del Sesto was proclaimed winner by a hair-427 votes-only to have the victory torn from his hands by a ruling from the state Supreme Court invalidating 4,954 absentee and shut-in votes. Having sneaked to a fourth term through this legal loophole, Denny Roberts is now plagued by party dissidence and public weariness with his erratic...
Duke Maas was called in to pitch and got Frank Torre on a fly to left. But he walked Del Crandall and Johnny Logan singled sharply to left, knocking in both Aaron and Covington for a 4-1 lead. Then came Burdette's home...
Benched at the start because left-handed Whitey Ford was pitching for the Yanks, Bruton came in as a pinch hitter in the ninth but fanned. Given another chance after singles by Joe Adcock and Del Crandall in the 10th, he came through beautifully with a drive that probably would have been good for two bases if more were needed...
...Covington sent Elston Howard deep into left with the wind helping the ball but the Yankee outfielder caught his long drive. Del Crandall, a Duren strikeout victim on three pitches in the eighth, bounded a high hopper to short center for a single...
...Havana club to another (he belongs to five) in a snappy Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place is called "Yemaya," an Afro-Cuban voodoo word for virgin; Hedges likes the name so well that he also gave it to his 34-ft. yacht...