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...sullen anger: at a baseball ... Maris sent a whistling drive soaring high into the rightfield seats. It was his 59th homer in 154 games; he had come within one heart-stopping wallop of tying baseball's most dramatic and cherished record: the 60 home runs hit by George Herman Ruth in 1927 (seven years before Maris was born). Nothing in recent baseball history has aroused such sustained excitement?or provoked such profound and varied emotion ... ... A FEW SENTIMENTALISTS SAW EVERY MARIS HOMER AS A PERSONAL ATTACK ON RUTH. They argued that today's ball is livelier, today's fences shorter...
...is emerging, and savvy designers at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City last month were busy catering to it with sleek high chairs made of colorful foam and playful quilts covered in herds of elephants and pods of dolphins. Indeed, mixed in among the requisite Herman Miller chairs and LED lights were plenty of bassinets, pint-size beds and bookshelves from cutting-edge kids-gear companies like Offi, ducduc and Netto Collection. Some visitors were even toting toddlers and babies as they perused the stands. "This is the first time in 10 years I've seen...
...Sinegal, I am getting a membership to Costco and will never again darken the doorway of Wal-Mart. It seems that Sinegal understands what many companies knew 50 years ago: if you take good care of good employees, they will serve the company, not only themselves. Paul Herman Sun City West, Arizona, U.S. The entire issue deserves commendation, but I especially thank you for the tribute to the Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash written by NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley. I have often wanted to send off a note to Nash thanking him for his positive attitude...
...PAUL HERMAN Sun City West, Ariz...
...Caine Mutiny Court-Marshal This revival prompts a question: Herman Wouk, what were you thinking? In the context of his great sea saga - published as a novel in 1951 and turned into a 1954 film, then this play - the court-marshal of the psycho Captain Queeg is a demonstration of what happens when real-world wartime chaos gets translated into the cool legal niceties of the courtroom. But unmoored from its seagoing prologue, all that talk about Queeg's obsession with shirttails and strawberries lacks any dramatic punch. And why make so much of the betrayal of Lt. Keefer...