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...allegiance and a new kind of job. He is the new manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, once the scourge of the National League, but more recently its most promising also-ran. Long gone are the rowdy old days of the Cardinals' famed "Gashouse Gang"-Pepper Martin, Frankie Frisch, Leo Durocher, Dizzy Dean, et al. But the fiercely loyal St. Louis fans, who learned to look on Stanky with a sort of affectionate loathing when he played on rival clubs, are cheered when Stanky says: "I have always been the Gashouse type...
...years, the Yankees have won 18 pennants, 14 World Series. † Joe's 199th in his 51st series game, breaking Frank Frisch's records of 197 at-bats, 50 series games...
...seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...
...about sources 100 meters or more from the hive, the scout bee does another dance. It wags its abdomen from side to side, runs forward a few steps, turns around, runs forward and wags again. The more rapid the turning and wagging, the closer the honey lies. Dr. von Frisch fed scout bees at varied distances from the hive and timed the tempo of their dancing. He found that when they made nine or ten complete dance cycles in 15 seconds, it meant that the honey flowers were 100 meters away. Seven cycles meant 200 meters; 4½ cycles meant...
...moves vertically upward on the comb face they know they should fly toward the sun, guided by polarized sky light. A run 60° away from vertical tells them to fly 60° to the left of the sun. Careful experiments show, says Dr. von Frisch, that bees briefed by the honey dance seldom deviate more than 15° from the correct direction...