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Last week nervous Manager Leo ("The Lip") Durocher left the dugout and went back to directing his club from the first-base coaching line. He promptly got booed by the Brooklyn fans-those who were still going to games. What fans kept asking each other as they milled out of the exits: will Leo finish out the season on the first-base line? Or even in Brooklyn...
...characters whose performances were greying with familiarity, was an actor of Olympian manner and delivery, a man to put emotion into the show. General MacArthur was a candidate to arouse either intense hostility or deep admiration. Ever since the early days of the Pacific war, anti-MacArthur feeling (e.g., "Dugout Doug") has been whipped up by a strange medley ranging from Navy men to Communist-fronters. This hostile sentiment on personal rather than professional grounds was never founded on rational analysis. Nevertheless, it remained one of the emotional realities of the Pacific war to the end. Last week, when...
Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick is a farsighted-often a gloomily farsighted-man. Last month he set aside the Chicago Tribune Tower's lowest sub-basement as an atom-bomb shelter (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week he announced that he would stock the (future) dugout with a little (future) mild refreshment. He assured the 3,000 Tower employees that the refuge would be "equipped [for us] to live there 24 hours. . . ." Among its provisions: "an adequate supply of canned pineapple . . . the best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
...beside Mickey Owen's disastrous dropped-third-strike in 1941, or Babe Ruth's homer in the 1932 Series. It broke up the game. Little noticed in the Dodger's victory dance around home plate, Pitcher Bill Bevens, a forgotten man, trudged toward the dugout with bowed head and tears in his eyes. He had pitched a one-hitter-and lost the game...
...first time the Dodgers played St. Louis, the Cards grumbled about playing on the same field with a Negro. They changed their minds-under pressure. Philadelphia was worse, because there the opposition had the open support of Phillies Manager Ben Chapman. He bawled insults at Robinson from the dugout. Chapman's second-division Phillies, notoriously the crudest bench-jockeys in baseball, chimed in. Says Rookie Robbie: "I'd get mad. But I'd never let them know it." The Phillies management finally called down Chapman. He had his picture taken with Robinson to prove to everyone that...