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Keith Moreland, Center fielder Bobby Dernier and Shortstop Larry Bowa. "The problem was bringing them together," said Field Manager Jim Frey, "getting them to think of themselves not as ex-somethings-or-other but as Cubs, and proud to be Cubs." Frey, who came along this year when Chicago moved up from fifth, had managed Kansas City against Philadelphia in that '80 series, then was rather briskly fired. Evidently Green knew where a lot of winners were...
Besides Matthews, the Cubs got home runs from Bob Dernier, Ron Cey and pitcher Rick Sutcliffe...
...McGregor, both of whom failed to go the distance last night, matched three-hitters through the first six innings. In the eighth, Maddox came to bat against McGregor with the score tied 1-1. During the season he had shared center field with Gree 'Gross, Von Hayes and Bob Dernier and had hit only four home runs. He was one of those unhappy Phillie role players...
...Dernier Cri. Hollywood's hardest-working sex symbol showed up at Lanvin's salon, plopped herself down next to Nicole Alphand, wife of the French ambassador to Washington, and dazzled photographers, if not the fashion editors, with a hot-pink Balmain dress whose V-neck plunged to a demure bow set between her floating ribs. Carroll also displayed six inches of thigh, a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses, and aplomb...
Carroll had latched onto the dernier cri: from Paris to Rome, the word was feathers. And enough of them were being used to have the Audubon Society declare a state of emergency. Dior's Marc Bohan must have robbed every hen house and bird cage on the Continent. He whipped up topcoats of grouse, full-length evening coats of grackle, blouses of speckled hen feathers and wove materials half in tweed and half in pin feathers...