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...Hand Tied. Warren writes most of his own notes and memorandums (and the one opinion he has written so far) with a yellow lead pencil on standard, yellow, lined legal pads. He writes with his right hand, although he is naturally a left-hander (he was once a southpaw outfielder on a sandlot baseball team). When he was a schoolboy, a teacher tied his left hand behind him and forced him to write with his right. This practice, long condemned as psychologically disturbing, has left no noticeable scars on the Chief Justice...
...tenth hole of Cape Cod's Eastward Ho! course, with an uphill green, left-hander Colcord teed off using a lethal brassie. Having neglected to shout "fore," and because he lost the ball in a bright sun, Colcord braced himself for an expected embroglio as the preceding foursome turned and set at him with high-pitched shouts...
First Game. The Dodgers sent Right-hander Erskine against the Yankees, but he was wild and the Yankees knocked him out of the game in the first inning with four runs (on three walks and two triples). By the fifth inning the Dodgers were beginning to straighten out the fastball pitching of Yankee Allie Reynolds, but old National Leaguer Johnny Sain marched in to replace Reynolds and silence the Dodgers while the Yankees piled up more runs. Score: Yankees, 9; Dodgers...
Bright Young Men. For all his high-powered selling methods, the nation's No. 1 soap salesman is no backslapping glad-hander in the tradition of the American drummer. At 48, Neil McElroy, a towering 6 ft. 4 in., given to conservative clothes, is a methodical man, with a quick smile and the unruffled air of a winning poker player. His wavy hair is greying, his blue eyes sharp. He keeps his 210 Ibs. in trim shape with plenty of tennis...
Sophomore pitcher Andy Ward was named to the first team of the Greater Boston coaches' all-star lineup, it was announced yesterday. Ward, a right-hander, pitched low run ball all year. Captain and first baseman Russ Johnson received honorable mention to the team's infield...