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Tiger pitcher Mickey Lolich did what super-star Denny McLain couldn't as he twirled a six hitter and blasted a home run in the Tiger romp. The homer was Lolich's first in the majors, and was one of three Tiger blasts during...
Solzhenitsyn believes that his mathematics saved him: he was next sent to Mavrino, a prison research institute outside Moscow. Mavrino is the setting of The First Circle. The title comes from Dante's Inferno, where the first circle of hell is peopled by the great men of antiquity?Homer, Socrates, Plato?who, too valuable to be thrown into the pit, were consigned to limbo. Mavrino is an institute carrying out KGB research projects, and as a prison it is bearable. There is meat. There is some comfort. There are even women. Yet this is still slave labor of the mind...
...with his bat for Denny to put the ball belt-high, where he likes it. Denny served it up, and Mick lined the ball into the upper deck for his 535th home run. As he rounded the bases, he moved past Jimmy Foxx into third place in the alltime homer derby, behind Babe Ruth (714) and Willie Mays (585). "Be sure to tell Denny thanks," said Mantle afterward. "Thanks for what?" asked McLain when he got the message. Then he grinned broadly and added: "I make mistakes all the time...
...Homer finds whimsy everywhere. Wall Street, he notes, is physically only "an inauspicious little alley." He depicts the typical bond buyer as a "friendly, earnest, knowledgeable-looking man who sits at a big desk staring at a small piece of paper with an expression on his face of agonized apprehension. He is worried because he doesn't quite know what he should be worried about...
Aches in the Solar Plexus. Pinpointing a problem that plagues his business, Homer writes: "The president of your bank hates bonds. The mere sound of the word starts up a dull ache in his solar plexus. This makes him fidget. Bonds, he knows, are things the bank has to buy when there is no demand for loans; they are also things the bank has to sell when there is a demand for loans and interest rates are high. Somehow or other this usually involves a loss." As for coexistence with the stock market, writes Homer, "the bond market provides...