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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Curtain time. The crowd presses expectantly into Manhattan's hallowed house of vaudeville, the Palace. One fan has come from as far away as Brazil. A woman from Long Island, in a $9.90 seat, has already followed the night's star through four cities and at least 20 performances. As the pit band strikes up the overture, the now capacity crowd begins to peer anxiously toward the orchestra-section entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Seance at the Palace | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

Pain has been an inescapable part of being a Red Sox fan for many years also because the Red Sox have had so many capable individuals. Remember Frank Malzone, Eddie Bressoud, Chuck Schilling, Dick Stuart, Bill Monboquette, Felix Mantilla? All good ballplayers, in their way. Yet despite their presence the Sox had long languished in the depths of the American League...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Something Special About the Red Sox | 8/1/1967 | See Source »

...prison office. As he rushed back to his cage, Lovett saw one group of prisoners setting fire to a pile of newspapers and toilet paper that they had stacked under a bunk and another starting a blaze at the opposite end of the building. A large exhaust fan sucked the flames along the ceiling. In seconds, the one-story structure was a furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: A Fatal Ruckus | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...Durocher, either. Gourmet gambler, clotheshorse, man about Hollywood, Durocher was one of baseball's most controversial characters when he managed the Brooklyn Dodgers anc New York Giants to three pennants in the 1940s and 1950s. "Nice guys finish last," was his famous motto. He was sued by a fan who claimed Leo had broken his jaw, and he was suspended for the entire 1947 season by Commissioner A. B. Chandler, who finally decided that his conduct was "detrimental to baseball." Dropped by the Giants in 1955, he couldn't find another managerial job (he was a coach with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Leo the Lamb | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...manager of the Chicago Cubs is obviously an impostor. The 1967 season is already more than half over, and this fellow who says he is Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, 60, has not cursed a single sportswriter, or attacked a single fan, and has been thrown out of only two games all summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Leo the Lamb | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

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