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...Bill Talbert, 32-year-old Davis Cup veteran and still a quick man on his feet (for three sets), says: "Make him run." Talbert's pal and protégé Tony Trabert, the 20-year-old sensation of the summer circuit, thinks the answer is: "Hit 'em harder." Gardnar Mulloy, a canny old hand at 37, says...
...Campanella, who had neglected to shave. The athletes looked only a wee bit too athletic, being endowed with magnificently bronzed complexions glowing with not quite believable health." Noting Sportcaster Red Barber's comment on First Baseman Hodges' rippling muscles, Critic Smith added: "You could see 'em, too, although they were encased in a pelt of somewhat lovelier tone-about the shade of roast beef medium-than Gil wears in real life...
...Hollywood Bowl. She played the discs for an impressed Mayer, then persuaded the Bowl to book Lanza. In the late summer of 1947, Lanza interrupted a concert tour to appear at the Bowl; it was his 200th concert. In one of his own favorite phrases, he fractured 'em...
...Wait'll you get 'em right in your sights. Then short bursts. There's no sense melting your guns." That was Lieut. Colonel Francis S. ("Gabby") Gabreski's formula for picking Messerschmitts out of the air in the last war. It worked well enough to make Gabby the U.S.'s top-ranking ace in the European Theater, with 28 Nazi planes to his credit before a forced landing in 1944 grounded him for ten months in a German prison camp...
...they go out at night and have a drink. Training for baseball is not like training for a fight, where it's all over in 30 minutes. The boys have to relax once in a while." But, adds Dressen, "when they make a mistake, I fine 'em-and they get over it quick...