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George Frazier is everything you say he is (and so, I might add, is the "dreary" Boston newspaper situation). However, unless St. George is also a schizophrenic, how could he call Mickey Mantle an "unfrocked fink"? In one of his July columns, Mr. Frazier wrote: "Mantle has such grit and gallantry as to suffuse the summery sarabands of baseball with so singular a splendor." The column ends with: "I would that my sons grow up to have the frankincense and myrrh of such magic." Please explain...
...Frazier explains, "A fink unfrocked is a fink no more. Mickey Mantle acquired class after he came up to the majors. He was surly when he started, but he has grown in stature to where he's a gracious man-and he plays a graceful game...
George Frazier is a man of muscular opinions. To him, Harry Belafonte is "America's number one slave"; Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett is a "son of a bitch"; Roger Maris is a "fink" and Mickey Mantle is an "unfrocked fink." In Frazier's considered judgment, "all hockey players are crazy," all Texans are "a little ridiculous," and Brooks Brothers "is like a giant class reunion...
...HIGGINS RG DAN BEIGEL BOB MURPHY BILL MARCELLINO RT DENNIS GOLDEN BERNIE DEMPSEY JOE COSTANTINI RE PAT VETRANG DON MAIBERGER TOM BUTLER QB PAT McCARTHY JOHN WHEATON RON MATTANA LH AL SNYDER JIM HOLLORAN PAT CONNORS RH TOM HENNESSEY JIM GRAVEL ART MIRANTE FB HANK CUTTING CARL PELLEGRINI BOB FINK...
Died. George R. Fink, 75, crusty, autocratic U.S. steelmaker, who began as a 10?-an-hour open-hearth laborer, rose to affluence as a steel salesman to Detroit's pre-World War I auto industry, went on to found Michigan Steel Corp. and Great Lakes Steel Corp., then merged them with two others to form National Steel, which under his presidency (1929-54) became the fifth largest U.S. producer; of generalized arteriosclerosis; in Grosse Pointe...