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Tired Reliables. That the Yankees were even within talking reach of the 1950 pennant was the wonder of the season. Injuries had kept Old Reliable Tommy Henrich (.287 last year) out of the regular line-up most of the season. Joe DiMaggio (hitting .285) was winning games when they counted, but he had been off form all through midseason. Relief Pitcher Joe Page (3 won, 5 lost) was far behind his 1949 performance...
Modern art was on the couch last week. A Viennese psychiatrist, Dr. Eva Henrich, had shown 30 pictures to a panel of 158 rank & file Viennese. Half the works were by modernist painters-Picasso, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Enrico Donati and Joán Miró. The other half were by schizophrenic patients in mental hospitals. Asked to decide which were the outpourings of patients and which the works of artists, the panel scored a perfect zero. They were right half the time, wrong the other half-or no better than they might have been if they had closed their...
Picassophobes could take grim delight in Psychiatrist Henrich's findings. For them, the test proved that moderns are mad. Picassophiles would be forced to conclude that the average Viennese layman is no judge...
...National League's most valuable player for 1949, served up a Louella Parsons-style program containing some gossipy nuggets. Examples: Eddie Waitkus, shot last summer by a love-crazed girl in Chicago, says he'll be in the Phillies' opening day lineup; the Yankees' Tommy Henrich is happier at first base than in the outfield, because in right field he "used to get so weary chasing pitchers' mistakes...
Waldman devotes other portions of his back to such men as Luke Appling, Gene Bearden, Alvin Dark, Bob (Mr. Team) Elliott, Jim Hegan, Tommy Henrich, Ben Hogan, Johnny Mize, Jackie Robinson, Johnny Sain, Vern Stephens, Doak Walker, and four-fifths of the 1948 Kentucky basketball team--Barker, Beard, Grozs, and Jones...