Word: hillman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wired TIME Correspondent Serrell Hillman from the Kefauver cavalcade last week...
Weeks later, when Correspondent Serrell Hill man joined the Phillies on a Western swing, the big pitcher was still remembering the experience. "You ever pose for an artist?" he asked Hillman. ''Koerner had me holding still for two weeks. I came up with a sore back!" But he admitted that he and his Philly teammates finally became fascinated as his portrait emerged from the blobs of oil paint...
Before long Roberts had the same mixed feelings about Hillman's searching interviews. He kept telling teammates: "I'm tired of that guy following me around." But in the end, Roberts, a careful craftsman himself, loosened up and grew to admire Hillman's persistence. Even when Hillman confessed that he was a loyal Brooklyn rooter whose only son, Lemuel Serrell Hillman III, now nine, has been called "Dodger" since birth, stolid Robin Roberts merely shrugged...
During and after his Western tour with the Phillies, Reporter Hillman touched base with other present-day moundsmen and some famed oldtimers to supply Sport Editor Richard Seamon with material for his comparative study of pitching then and now in "The Whole Story of Pitching." Cordially yours...
After lunch, Mrs. Attlee drove their small Hillman in from their suburban home in Prestwood, and Attlee spent the afternoon clearing his parliamentary office of books and files and lugging them to the car. That night came the announcement that he would accept an earldom...