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...many others are names every body knows - so many, in fact, that a list of them since 1924 reads almost like a roll-call of the great and near-great of our times : Admiral (then Captain) Ernest J. King and William Ran dolph Hearst ("I think the less said about my college career the better"), Irene Castle and Adolphe Menjou ("I have never up to the present been a waiter in real life"), H. G. Wells and Billy Rose ("I would rather be labeled 'dwarfish' than not be mentioned in your splendid magazine at all") - Bernard Baruch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Poker and Solitude. He was rather a dandy, in a loud way. His favorite sport was poker. He could be a wonderfully entertaining host. William Randolph Hearst loved him. His own close friends were chiefly comic-strip artists - Hershfield, Ru dolph Dirks (The Captain and the Kids}, Jim Swinnerton (Little Jimmy), the late TAD Dorgan (Indoor Sports). His best friend was the late H. M. (Beanny) Walker, Our Gang comedies director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Among the Unlimitless Etha | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Rickey did not choose to be buried. When the team started slipping, he got out the ax. Down it came on seasoned Dolph Camilli, Buck Newsom, Joe Medwick, Johnny Allen. When he was through pruning, only 14 of the 34 spring players remained. With few exceptions, other clubs could find no new material worth buying. In St. Paul, Rickey found 6 ft. 6½ in. First Baseman Howard Schultz; in Montreal, Outfielder Luis Olmo; in Durham, Outfielder Gene Hermanski. He brought in other youngsters. He asked 20,000 school and semi-pro coaches to name their best players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Battle of Brooklyn | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Dodgers, victors over the Cardinals by two and a half games last year, again have the edge in power. The Navy took Cookie Lavagetto and Don Padgett. But Brooklyn still has Dolph Camilli, the league's "most valuable player"; Pete Reiser, the league's No. 1 batter; and three other players who hit over .300 last year. Besides these old reliables, the Dodgers have one shining newcomer: Infielder Arky Vaughan, who never hit under .300 during ten years with the Pittsburgh Pirates. A star shortstop during all of his major-league career, Vaughan has been shifted to third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spring Again | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Second-generation Italians made a clean sweep of U.S. baseball honors in the season just past. Joe DiMaggio, native of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player. Dolph Camilli, another San Franciscan, was voted Most Valuable in the National League. Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankee shortstop, was the outstanding rookie of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Most Valuable | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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