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...rich, full say on some other baseball figures with whom he clashed. The man who could be so tender to his players that he once gave a sore-armed pitcher $40,000 as a parting gift has bitter memories of his 1960 clash with Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick over the draft-choice plan for stocking the new American League clubs in Washington and Los Angeles. Veeck argued that the plan unfairly forced the old clubs to choose between keeping their veteran stars or their prize minor leaguers. But to no avail. "Let us be fair," writes Veeck. "Ford Frick does...
...though, it was not the Yankees or Frick or financial problems that drove Bill Veeck out of baseball in June 1961. He was stricken with a vascular ailment, treated at the Mayo Clinic, ordered to take a long rest. Will he be back? Says Veeck: "Sometime, somewhere, there will be a club that no one really wants. And then Ole Will will come wandering back to laugh some more...
...quite. The Mets finally won one-then whiffed three more, and Old Case found himself striking out again, this time with Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick. Never a slow man to pick up an extra piece of change, Stengel had been posing for a series of ads in his new Mets uniform. One had him winking at a washing machine; another showed him bunting a baseball and selling beer with Miss Rheingold. That was too much for Frick, who has rules against uniformed ballplayers, even old ones, endorsing alcoholic beverages. He called Stengel on the carpet, added insult to injury...
...artist was Constance Marie Charpentier, an obscure but obviously admiring David follower. Last week, David was in the news again. In the scholarly French review Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Dealer Georges Wildenstein proclaimed that another painting attributed to David - a portrait of the violinist Antonio Bartolommeo Bruni, which the Frick Museum bought in 1952 - was actually by another female admirer...
...David had boycotted the exhibition - but the album contained several works by Constance Charpentier that year, including the painting thought to have been a David. Recently Dealer Wildenstein went back to the same al bum, which also includes sketches for the Salon of 1804. There he came upon the Frick's David under "Painting No. 114." But the legend in the catalogue read: "Mme. Davin-Mirvault, portrait of Signor Bruni, composer, former conductor of the orchestra at the Opéra-Buffa...