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Something for the Pigeons. All the while. Sadakichi sharpened the talent for gratuitous insult that later so endeared him to his Hollywood buddies. When he met dapper Industrialist Henry Clay Frick, he told him to write his autobiography and call it The Tom Thumb of the Coke Ovens. Of some blueprints of Architect Stanford White he said: "To be improved upon only by pigeons, after the drawings become buildings." One figure escaped his misanthropic venom: Mary Baker Eddy. He called the founder of Christian Science "the greatest spiritual expression of the century," and was writing a verse drama about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eccentric's Eccentric | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

Tenley practices from about four to seven a.m. at the Skating Club of Boston. Willie Frick, the Club's instructor, started her off and is still her teacher...

Author: By Joanna M. Shaw, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

Each member of the New York Yankees who received a full World Series share will bank a record check for $8,280.68, it was announced yesterday by baseball commissioner Ford Frick. These voted full shares by the losing Brooklyn Dodgers will receive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 10/8/1953 | See Source »

Commissioner Ford Frick fined manager Chuck Dressen of the Brooklyn Dodgers and outfielder Irv Noren of the New York Yankees each $100 yesterday for their part in incidents which occurred during the recent World Series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 10/8/1953 | See Source »

...While Frick was making his plea in Washington, the Associated Press totted up the score on major-league attendance so far this season. The finding: a 24% drop in attendance as compared with the same period in 1952, even after allowance for games rained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sagging Gate | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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