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Humbug. For old-fashioned prizefighting, nothing beats the welterweights. Take Emile Griffith and Luis Rodriguez, both 146 Ibs., soaking wet. Griffith, a soft-spoken Virgin Islander, makes ladies' hats; Rodriguez, a Cuban refugee, sings Yiddish songs in nightclubs. But when they meet in the ring, as they did for the fourth time in Las Vegas last week, anything goes...
CARROLL P. GRIFFITH...
Thus far, however, the Twins have been little more than terrorists. While a college team like Harvard can win with two pitchers, in the Majors it hasn't been done since the '48 Boston Braves. Unless Cal Griffith can pull off a deal like the rumored Killebrew for Bill Monhouquette swap or Camilio Pasqual and Jim Kast learn to throw every other day and twice on Sundays, Minnesota will watch the Series...
...master of crowd scenes, never moving bunches of people about aimlessly or frantically. Like the great film directors, D. W. Griffith and Eisenstein, he achieves compositions of masses in motion that have esthetic force and balance. When the soldiers circle their king, they are humble spokes of fealty wheeling around the hub of majesty. Men wounded and dying are draped onstage with the comely anguish of Pietàs of the battlefield...
...build an airtight case, the cops aimed to show that Neal had worn the hoods that were discarded near both holdups. Their method was to match hairs on the hoods with hairs on Neal's head. Armed with a court order from Common Pleas Judge Edward Griffith, the police were about to clip Neal's tresses when his lawyer, Milton S. Leidner, foiled them with a restraining order obtained in another court. The Constitution "intends that no man be forced to incriminate himself," says Leidner. When Judge Griffith overruled him, Leidner made a deal. Borrowing the judge...