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...Died. Gil Hodges, 47, New York Mets manager; of a heart attack; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Fresh from the Marines, Hodges rejoined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and in the next 17 seasons established a reputation for graceful fielding at first base and timely long-ball hitting. He set a National League record for grand-slam home runs (14) that still stands. After managing the Washington Senators for five years, he returned to New York to take over the hapless, tenth-place Mets. The next season Hodges led his team to the 1969 pennant and an upset World Series...
Next year's Harvard captain will be described by Joe Concannon in the Globe and Bob Monahan in the Traveller as a good kid with a lot of guts, intelligent, devoted to the team, a natural leader, a strong model for others, and the personality of Gil Thorpe. His picture will also appear in blurred red, blue, and green in both papers...
...Boot is actually an extraheavy pair of panty hose with soles and heels attached. It was conceived by Suzanne Garfield, 33, daughter of a California millionaire drugchain owner, after she found that her fabric boots wrinkled and sagged around her ankles while she was dancing. With her brother Gil, 37, she whacked away at a pair of tights and some oversized boots, spliced the two with pins and clips and, after a week of adjustment here and there, sewed them together. The creation was snapped up by Brown Shoe Company of St. Louis, which spent a year and a half...
...last weekend I went to Pittsburgh, and I discovered there that baseball still is the national pastime. Visiting a 70-year-old couple, the topic of conversation ranged from Stargell's stride to Oliver's glove. This couple knew Doc Eliss's repertoire of pitches better than Gil Hodges...
...Saturday march on the Boston Common led by Fernando Torres Gil, a Mexican-American graduate student at Brandeis, marked the resumption by the United Farm Workers of their national boycott of non-union lettuce...