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...next day the Yankees' pitching turned sour against the Senators, wasting nine good hits (including two home runs by Hank Bauer) and an early lead to lose 10-5. Chicago followed suit, succumbed to the hungry Cleveland Indians, whom they had walloped 8-1 the day before. With two homers by Centerfielder Larry Doby and Early Wynn's six-hit pitching, the 6-1 victory pulled Cleveland back up to a second-place tie with the Yankees, left Chicago still in front by half a game...
Frankie has his gang. He is rarely to be seen without a few. and sometimes as many as ten of "the boys" around him, and some look indeed like unfortunate passport photographs. A few of the Sinatra staff-Manager Hank Sanicola, Writer Don McGuire, Makeup-man "Beans" Ponedel-have established and important functions, but most of the others are classified as "beards and hunkers,"* and as they march in bristling phalanx along Sunset Strip, Frank walks lordly at the head of them...
After LIFE Photographer Joe Scherschel and Reporter Hank Suydam took pictures (with a concealed camera) in one of Fertitta's gambling houses, the boss and two henchmen followed the LIFE men to their hotel. Photographer Scherschel took his film upstairs while Reporter Suydam encountered Fertitta and his two strong-arm men in the lobby. Fertitta demanded an explanation of what Suydam and Scherschel had been doing, suddenly smashed Suydam in the face. By the time Suydam had picked himself off the floor, Fertitta had switched tactics, tried to stuff a $20 bill into the reporter's pocket...
...built a 120-ft. tree house in the jungle to get above the trees and came back with 4,000 negatives. (LIFE used 29.) ¶ Photographer Margaret Bourke-White dangled from a cable dropped from a helicopter for aerial views of the U.S. ¶ In a Florida lagoon. Photographer Hank Walker mounted a camera on a sunken ship, connected it to shore by 4,000 ft. of cable so that he could shoot a jet plane coming head-on to a target with its rockets blazing. A direct hit smashed the camera, but left the film magazine intact. ¶ Photographer...
...night, the favored miler, Al Wills, became unexpectedly ill and could not compete, costing the varsity valuable points. As it was, though, scrappy Phil Williams, running the best race of his life, finished a close second to Yale's Bob Schaller. The time was 4:18.1. Yale lacked sprinter Hank Thresher and half-miler Ed Hedeen...