Word: irvin
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Died. Henry Thompson, 43, former slugging third baseman for the New York Giants; of liver disease; in Fresno, Calif. Thompson and Outfielder Monte Irvin were the first of many Negro stars signed by Leo Durocher, and the policy paid off handsomely when Thompson's home runs sparked a successful Giant pennant drive in 1954. In the World Series that year, "Hammerm' Hank," as he was called, helped rout the formidable Cleveland Indians with a .364 batting average. He hit 129 major league homers before injuries and drinking problems forced his retirement...
Truth Serum. The state's key witness, Book Salesman Perry Russo, was severely handled by Defense Counsel Irvin Dymond. On crossexamination, Dy-mond led Russo carefully through the events of the party at which he said that he had heard Shaw, Lee Oswald and David Ferric, a former airlines pilot, discuss ways of killing the President. After two days of contradiction-riddled testimony, Russo made the state's case as shaky as JellO. He also displayed considerable antagonism toward Garrison and his staff, who had extracted depositions from him under hypnotism and the influence of Sodium Pentothal...
Feel for Pageantry. "We will later offer evidence concerning the assassination in Dealey Plaza in Dallas," said Garrison, "because it confirms the existence of a conspiracy and because it confirms the significance and relevance of the planning which occurred in New Orleans." Defense Attorney F. Irvin Dymond immediately objected that "the actual assassination has no place in this case." He was quickly overruled by Judge Edward Haggerty, a raspy-voiced jurist who has displayed as much feel for sweep and pageantry as Garrison; he had introduced the jurors to the press by parading them around a motel swimming pool. Said...
Flapping Galoshes. Lorimer made fiction king, and fiction writers princes. There was something close to divine right in Irvin S. Cobb's tone when he remarked, "The uncanny soundness of its literary judgment is demonstrated firstly by the fact that more people on this planet read the magazine and like it than any other magazine. And secondly by the fact that it buys nearly everything I write." F. Scott Fitzgerald walked the Post's cork-floored editorial corridors, his galoshes flapping, selling the short stories that kept him living high between books...
...another upset, Dartmouth downed Columbia, 2-1, to tie the Lions for fourth place. Dick Moon and Dave Irvin scored the two Dartmouth goals as Frank Kodah tallied the only Columbia score...