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While major league muscle boys were poling home runs at near-record rates, a lean, goodlooking outfielder who has only two to his credit this season was demonstrating a different sort of batting prowess. Cleveland Indian Centerfielder Jimmy Piersall, 31. was spraying line drives to all fields, collecting so many base hits that, at week's end, he sported a batting average a flashy 90 points over his lifetime .272 mark. The young father of eight led both leagues in hits and was a big reason for his team's surge into a three-way American League battle...
...recognized Hirt as a "great trumpet," and when he organized his own small band in 1955, he began to build a local following. Last fall he was persuaded to try his luck out of town. This year Hirt expects to clear more than $200,000-a change from his lean eating days that astounds him (his fair-weather breakfast ration: a dozen eggs). "I'm really not doing anything different," says Al Hirt. But he also admits: "I've called off the elopement drills for my daughters...
...army, he declared publicly, was "rabble," and the local press angrily quoted him as calling Army Boss Mobutu a "bandit." In time, Dayal lost personal contact with all Congolese leaders, eventually withdrew to haughty isolation in his own elegant residence. When, after Lumumba's death, he seemed to lean over backward to favor Antoine Gizenga's Red-leaning Stanleyville regime, Dayal also lost the trust of the big Western nations...
...photographers, our whole team would be benched for fouling within the first two minutes of play." But the emphasis in the A.A.U. championship was on speed and agility, and the perennial champions from the Illinois Athletic Club and the New York A.C. floundered in frustration, hopelessly outclassed by the lean, fast West Coast swimmers. "I tell these guys." said Lynwood's Coach Jim Schultz, "that everyone's the same size in deep water...
...lean years of the 1930's and 1940's there were good reasons for training law graduates to be the best possible legal technicians to enable them to meet the cut-throat competition for the few positions available. These days, getting a job is somewhat easier, and firms must compete harder to get the law graduates they want...