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Runyon's sawed-off Napoleon was a wiry Chicago southpaw pitcher named Dickie Kerr who had just won his second game for the White Sox in baseball's most embarrassing World Series. Behind him, some of the best players in the history of the game had played like bushers. Shoeless Joe Jackson, perhaps the greatest outfielder of them all, was unaccountably awkward under easy flies; Swede Risberg, the sure-handed shortstop, was fielding grounders with his feet; First Baseman Chick Gandil seemed asleep on the sack. But sawed-off Kerr had pitched his heart out against the Cincinnati...
...Matinee Idol Osgood Perkins, died. The versatile father's big reputation dragged the shy son into his own career, which now stands up solidly by itself with the Broadway triumph of Look Homeward, Angel and Hollywood stardom in Fear Strikes Out and Desire Under the Elms. ¶ John Kerr, 26, son of Actress June (Blue Denim) Walker, is Lieut. Joseph Cable in South Pacific, sprang into films from Broadway's Tea and Sympathy. ¶ Plato Skouras, 28, son of 20th Century-Fox President Spyros P. Skouras, formed an independent company three years ago with his brother, Spyros...
Last week demands for free copies were still flooding into Doubleday. Only four of the books had qualified as bestsellers by the appointed time: Jean Kerr's Please Don't Eat the Daisies. Edna Ferber's Ice Palace, Paul I. Wellman's Ride the Red Earth, and Robert Lewis Taylor's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. By also entering two less-likelies, Kenneth Roberts' The Battle of Cowpens and Saunders Redding's The Lonesome Road. Doubleday had thought to give its parlay some sporting zest. It succeeded too well. In flowed letters...
...survives a deadweight glossary of Hollywood stars--including Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, James Mason, Edward O'Brien, Deborah Kerr, and Greer Garson, a number of them wasting their talent and experience on bit-parts and walk...
Died. William Kerr Scott, 61, Democratic Senator from North Carolina, onetime (1949-53) governor of North Carolina and (1937-48) state commissioner of agriculture; of a heart attack; in Burlington, N.C. The tobacco-chewing "Squire of Haw River" (where he ran a 200-head dairy farm) drew his political strength from the rural vote, solidified his farm popularity during his term as governor by pushing through a bond issue that financed the paving of 14,810 miles of rural roads, chivied power companies until they strung 21,000 miles of new electric lines. Liberal Scott thought North Carolina was "shortchanging...