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...other baseball news, Cincinnati thirdbaseman Pet Rose upped his miracle hitting streak to 44 games with a single off Atlanta's Phil Niekro as the Reds won, 3-2. Rose tied Wee Willie Keeler's record streak with...
...Cypress Point, which was designed by Alister Mackenzie, the same architect who mapped out Augusta National. Situated on a spit of land at the base of the Santa Lucia foothills and pounded by the Pacific on all sides, Cypress Point is perhaps the most breathtaking course ever built. O.B. Keeler, the biographer of Bobby Jones, wrote that the Monterey cypress that line the fairways appeared to him as "the crystallization of the dream of an artist who had been drinking gin and sobering up on absinthe...
...labor unrest in the locker room, a time of free agents and frostbitten World Series in mid-October, baseball sorely needs to get down to basics. Carew is the right man at the right time, a modern version of Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler pushing the ball past grasping gloves, a Paul Waner incarnate lashing out hits to every field. Rod Carew-stirring the statisticians, enthralling the fans, enlivening the game, making memories...
42nd Street. This 1934 movie is the first of the great musicals. Hear the beat--of those dancing feet. Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, all caught up in a story line of the chorus dancer who has to fill in for the star at the out-of-town premier but sorry--not time for stories here, just singing and dancing, including "42nd Street" and "Shuffle Off to Buffalo." Doo-wop-a-wop. I love this musical. See you there--on the avenue I'm takin' you too, 42nd Street...
...bargain-basement price of $500,000. The Sun was a paper aimed at high-minded Labor Party supporters then, but Murdoch imported his Sydney-tested approach, and circulation picked up. He shocked many Britons, for example, by rehashing the randy memoirs of Call Girl Christine Keeler in his News of the World. Private Eye, a London satirical magazine, labeled him the "Dirty Digger."* Talk Show Host David Frost dragged him onto TV one evening and publicly belabored him over the Keeler affair. (Murdoch some months later bought a major interest in London Weekend Television, a production company partly owned...