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Turley threw a masterful game, blending his zipping fast ball with a slow curve and slider to save the Yanks from elimination. The reformed scatter-arm righthander, who failed to last two innings in Milwaukee, ended the game with a flourish by starting a double play on a ball hit back to the box by Wes Covington. He walked only two and fanned eight Braves...
...North Beach," he confided, "has become what Greenwich Village never was. North Beach is an American Left Bank. Small, maybe, but in spirit a cultural frontispiece extending from San Francisco to San Simeon." With a flourish of the hand, he proceeded to reel off a list of names--poets of the technological age, bar-room bohemians and prophets of the "beat, sad-brown and breathless generation...
...safe, exhilarating sport, not a devil-daring performance for iron-nerved musclemen. Europe has been convinced since World War II, and there thousands of men and women of all ages happily spend their weekends halfway between plane and earth. It is time for the sport to flourish in the U.S., says Istel. "There's no more to parachute jumping, done right, than jumping in a swimming pool...
...Loved One) Waugh showed up as honor guest at a London literary luncheon bearing an elegantly Victorian, 2-ft.-long ear trumpet. Waugh, not widely known to be hard of hearing, waggled his antique radar about happily while chatting with table companions, clowned his listening gear with a flourish when an old enemy, Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge rose to speak, crowed later: "I did not listen to a word he said. I do not like that man. We met once in Africa...
...give some of his winnings to the N.A.A.C.P. Professor Morton B. King Jr., for 20 years chairman of the sociology department, resigned in protest, charging that the university "was no longer able to defend the freedom of thought, inquiry and speech which is essential for higher education to flourish." Instead of taking King's resignation as a warning that other professors might follow suit, the state house of representatives formally denounced him. urged all state campuses to step up their guard against such "subversive influences...