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...audience of 1,000,000, Jerome Herman Dean has explained all- in The Dizzy Dean Dictionary and What's What in Baseball. His sponsor, St. Louis' Falstaff Brewery, planted the idea; an adman wrote the book. Despite this hybridism, the result is pure Dean, so pure that Diz threatens to "write another soon." Meanwhile Opus No. 1 has gone through 25,000 copies in ten days...
...Diz averaged 20 wins a year in five and a half seasons until a line drive in the 1937 All-Star game broke his toe. Diz rested for a fortnight, then tried out a new delivery that favored the bad foot. "There was a loud crack in my shoulder, and my arm went numb down to my fingers. . . . Ol' Diz's great arm was never goin' to be the same...
...President of the Cortes' dais was raised to befitting Fascist level. Special space was allotted to the junta of the Falange. Carefully, it was seen that no accommodation for public or press should be available. Everything that recalled any liberal period since the Cortes of Cádiz in 1812 was gone as the Procuradores (literally: procurers) of Spain's new Cortes assembled last week to be sworn in and listen to Caudillo Francisco Franco...
...often do records bring a 150-year-old composition to the ears of U. . music lovers for virtually the first time, but this month that rare event occurs. In 1785 the Canon of the Cathedral in Cádiz, Spain, commissioned some 80 minutes of music from Austria's Franz Joseph Haydn. The music was for the three-hour service on Good Friday, when in Catholic churches seven sermons are usually preached on the Seven Last Words of Christ.* Joseph Haydn furnished an orchestral introduction for these discourses, seven slow interludes, a brief finale. Even without the religious connotations...
...York Yankees' great Outfielder Joe Di Maggio, after facing Satchel in exhibition games, declared the Negro had more speed than anybody. The garrulous, once-great Dizzy Dean allowed that Satchel was plenty fast, but had no curve worth mentioning. When Diz batted against Satchel, the black pitcher struck him out with three consecutive curves...