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...ball out of the infield, let alone over a fence. Owner Charles Finley's solution was to bring the mountain to Mohammed. He built a plywood fence in rightfield, only 296 ft. from home plate, christened the project his "Pennant Porch." Unh-unh, said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, so Finley moved the whole contraption back 29 ft. and renamed it a "One-Half Pennant Porch...
...FRICK COLLECTION-Fifth Ave. at 70th. Handsomely hung in the spacious surroundings of the mansion are most of the 159 masterpieces in the collection by such master painters as Titian, Bellini, El Greco, Goya, Fragonard, Gainsborough and Turner...
...between Austria and Switzerland (since 1924 it has shared currency, customs services and foreign service with the Swiss) that vacationers driving through are often unaware that they are even in Franz Josef's fief. This bothers Liechtenstein's government not at all, for, as Prime Minister Alexander Frick once observed, the sight of idle tourists could prove unsettling to the country's hard-working peasants...
Beethoven: Fidelio (Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig, Tenor Jon Vickers, Basses Gottlob Frick and Walter Berry; the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Otto Klemperer; Angel, 3 LPs). An easy-breathing, expansive performance notable for the clarity of its orchestral effects. There are more dramatic Fidelias but none with quite the same air of authority that Klemperer musters here. Mezzo Ludwig's singing is pure, true and warm; she creates a Leonora that is consistently moving and everywhere credible...
With 120-m.p.h. winds and torrential rains lashing San Francisco, Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick waded through a Candlestick Park that the groundskeeper called "fit only for synchronized swimming," kept calling off the sixth game between the Giants and Yankees, thus making the 1962 World's Series the most oft-postponed since the six-day wait in 1911 when the Giants were playing the Philadelphia Athletics...