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Bellinger, who had two homers yesterday against Pittsburgh, had a two-run single in the sixth and an RBI double in the fourth. Tino Martinez hit his third homer of the spring...
...Dunedin, Fla., Bobby McMillan hit a two-run homer and had five RBIs and Tony Barron had four hits and three RBIs for Philadelphia...
Mark McGwire's fourth homer of the spring came off Mike Mussina, who allowed four hits in five innings...
...style, however silly on occasion, gave the magazine a distinctive voice. Men were not famous but "famed," not powerful but "potent." High on the list of accolades was "able." All were masculine terms of approbation: the news in Homeric mode, demigods or villains on tiptoe. TIME's writers loved Homer's narrative techniques. Compound adjectives: Mexico's President Francisco Madero was "wild-eyed." The World War I German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was "long-whiskered." Public figures were tagged with mock-heroic identifying phrases. Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead was invariably "the duck-hunting dentist...
Perry was born in Paris, France, graduated from St. Mark's School and later received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Harvard. In addition to his work in education, Perry published a translation of Homer's Iliad with Alston Hurd Chase...