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...gazes at his pregnant wife and their eight children and roars with laughter. An Italian and his wife, scouring Florence in search of a Raphael painting, find that only the foreign tourists know where it is. A farmhand in a field stops pitching hay-long enough to nurse her baby...
Carter has been bowling with just such effortless precision ever since he quit pro baseball in 1948-he was a Class-D farmhand for the old Philadelphia Athletics-to play the alleys seriously. Competing in a game that has more active competitors (28 million) than any other in the U.S. and that makes little distinction between amateurs and professionals. Don Carter has compiled a record that is probably unmatched in any sport. He has been voted "Bowler of the Year" five times.He has won the All-Star Tournament four times. He was a member of the crack St. Louis Budweisers...
...Tight Rope. Born in the Hamburg slums shortly before the start of World War I. Schlieker started kicking his way ahead during the Depression, became in rapid succession a farmhand, a clerk in a Nazi law court, a chamberpot salesman in Haiti. Back in Germany in ,1938, Willy caught the attention of the Ruhr's huge Vereinigte Stahlwerke, which made him their lobbyist to the Nazi government. So well did Party Member Schlieker lobby that he was eventually taken into the government as chief of the entire steel industry...
Once a promising Dodger farmhand, U.S.C. Alumnus Bill Sharman used to nurse fond dreams of big-league baseball. ("I'm the guy who was going to shove Snider out of center field," he remembers with a wry smile.) Now he knows that basketball is his game. He is so central to the Celtics' championship hopes that last week Coach Red Auerbach refused to tempt trouble by putting him back in uniform too soon for the four and five pounding miles of running required in a pro game. So Bill bided his time until the St. Louis Hawks invaded...
There was, for a starter, the charge of threatened arson. One night not long after Padre Antonio Zamorano took over the parish in 1942, his flock, mostly peasants who lived and worked on neighboring estates, came to the church in tearful anger. A landlord, annoyed by one of his farmhand tenants, had refused to pay any of them for their work that week. The priest, whose life until then had been the unharried existence of a Catholic school teacher of algebra, Latin and Greek, was shocked. "Is weeping all you propose to do?" he roared at his parishioners...