Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petersburg, Fla., where they both limbered up for the season (Henrich with the New York Yankees and Musial with the St. Louis Cardinals), they were less conspicuous than the greenest rookies. Nobody had to give them orders about getting in shape; they trained themselves. Many a player turns up at camp hog-fat; Musial, who had put himself on a winter schedule of two meals a day, reported five pounds underweight and built up to his normal 175. When the season began, Stan Musial dug in at the plate with his peculiar crouch. "He looks like a kid peeking around...
...careful how he spends it, wears store suits and shirts (DiMaggio was always "a custom-made guy"). Henrich never volunteers advice to another Yankee, but when players come to him for help his blue eyes light up. Says one mate: "He's the kind of guy, you give him a watch and he'll take it apart and put it back together, and then write the watchmaker telling him what's wrong with...
...Happy") Chandler told the prodigals that all was forgiven. All 18 were reinstated to the clubs they played for three years ago. Said Lanier, eager to get back with the Cardinals, whom he was suing for $1,500,000: "I'm delighted . . . but I won't give up my original case against the people who tossed me out of baseball...
Said Danny Kaye, who will be back in the U.S. next month: "I give the audience some emotion, then I can feel it coming up from them. It goes back & forth in waves...
...front page, annoyed by its murky newsprint and cloudy color pages, and bored by its stories. By Thanksgiving Day, circulation had slumped to 71,447-well below the 100,000 guarantee to advertisers. From his thriving morning Times, Owner Norman Chandler rushed over City Editor Hugh ("Bud") Lewis to give Mirror Publisher Virgil Pinkley some help...