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Ending a 25-year Teamster grip on Chicago's taxicabs was an uphill job. Local 777 has long been run as the private preserve of hard-eyed Hoodlum Joey Glimco, who is known around Chicago as "Jimmy Hoffa's Pal Joey." Glimco controlled not only the union but also the 48-local Teamster Joint Council and a fistful of "Windy City" rackets as well. His various activities earned him an estimated $70,000 a month...
Then the team began to click, thanks largely to some astute trades pulled off by moonfaced General Manager Bill DeWitt, a wily merchandiser of men who joined the Reds only last fall. In a complex deal, DeWitt got Milwaukee Pitcher Joey Jay, the first Little Leaguer to make the majors, and Chicago White Sox Third Baseman Gene Freese. Late in April, he got peppery Second Baseman Don Blasingame from San Francisco. That seemed to do the trick. Three days after Blasingame arrived, the Reds took off on a nine-game winning streak, by the end of May were in first...
...Dykes' magic worked that Piersall has yet to be bounced from a game this year. And Piersall has brought more to the Indians than a somewhat mellowed manner. Concentrating on his hitting, he has stopped undercutting the ball and has picked up pointers from an ex-Indian infielder, Joey Sewell. Says Piersall: "Sewell's made a thinking hitter out of me. Now I vary my stance according to what the pitcher throws." Last week, at the end of a blazingly-game stretch in which he hit .515 with 34 hits in 66 at bats, Piersall was doing exactly...
...carries the reader with you. If you don't like it, you have to sustain the reader's interest. Two of the most delightful evenings I ever had in the theater were at the English production of The Importance of Being Earnest and a revival of Pal Joey. Both times I had a 102° fever, all of which proves that if something is good, it has nothing to do with how the critic feels." What disturbs Kronenberger about Broadway today is that it "has become so dependent on adaptations as opposed to original plays. Adaptations almost always...
Students have charged that the Faculty Committee has an unreasonable projudice against having musical productions in the Loeb. They point out that the Gilbert and Sullivan Players were unhappy in the Loeb, and that Pal Joey was discouraged from applying...