Word: impishness
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...Frank ("The Old Flash") Frisch, 48, onetime second-baseman for the New York Giants, and pepperpot manager of the famous St. Louis Cardinal "Gashouse Gang," a man who outtalked his foes when he couldn't outplay them, the game's most impish umpire-baiter. He stepped out last fall as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, now raises flowers at his New Rochelle (N.Y.) home, hopes to broadcast New York Giant games this season...
...three teams-the one that left yesterday, the one playing today, the one coming in tomorrow. After lifting Milwaukee from eighth to first place in the American Association in two years (and the value of the club from $90,000 to $250,000), Veeck joined the Marines. An impish-looking fellow of 33 with a crew haircut and massive face, he was injured at Bougainville, now carries his right leg in a cast...
Most exciting shot: Bergman at the piano singing French-Creole songs to Cooper in a manner to make less stalwart he-men wilt. Most amusing tableau: the head-pivoting "parade" of beruffled Clio, followed by her grim mulatto maid, followed by an impish dwarf...
...brought him a chance (as amusement editor) to go on-if not up-from there. For a time, with impish delight, he walked the tight wire between good fun and bad taste. On his pub-crawling beat, sipping an occasional dark-rum Daiquiri, he ogled the rhinestone in a stripteaser's navel, tattled on the Duchess of Windsor's powder-room behavior (she left the maid...
...hard life of a Point plebe did next to nothing to Doc's impish, hillbillyish charm. He still managed to have fun. When he laughed, his mouth spread as wide as an oven door. He had a drawl that could pass for Amos & Andy's Kingfish, and an easy line of chatter about his important "social contacts...