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...Yankees made similar advances in the fourth against Cleveland hurler Bruce Ellingson, 1-1. Elliott Maddox walked with none out, went to second on a Murcer single, then to third on a long foul pop by Lou Piniella. Thurman Munson sacrificed him home to tie the game...
...then 52, whom he had loved since World War I, when she was social secretary to his wife Eleanor. In 1918, Eleanor had found a packet of scented love letters to her husband from Lucy. Screaming shrilly, according to Bishop, Eleanor confronted F.D.R. in his bedroom while their son Elliott, then seven years old, cowered near by. "Please, Babs, please," Roosevelt begged. "The dinner guests are downstairs...
...have been winning. The surprising Yankees, who have not won a pennant in ten years, sport no Mantles or DiMaggios this year. Some frantic trading eventually paid off, though, and the erratic Bombers began to wring winning performances out of an assortment of new arrivals and old journeymen. Outfielders Elliott Maddox and Lou Piniella have been hitting over .300. Rudy May, a recent acquisition, has helped an ailing pitching staff, backing up young Doc Medich...
...bets are off. George Segal and Elliott Gould, a pair of raveled gamblers, need luck bad. They go to Reno, play big, win even bigger, and come up empty. Granted, there does not seem to be much of promise here, but Robert Altman has made a funny, smart, anxious movie about luck and lowlife...
Like all his work, California Split (slang for high-low-split poker) has its own bent rhythm. It gives the feeling of having been made with a stoned offhandedness. In fact, there is a relaxed precision governing everything, even Elliott Gould's mumbled throwaways...