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Exactly 132 pitches later, rapid Robert Feller had walked five men, fanned eleven, and given up nothing more substantial than two lazy outfield flies. For this great performance, he rated about 75% of the credit. The other 25% went to lean-jawed, iron-man Catcher Frank Hayes, who outguessed the Yankee hitters all afternoon. When they expected the fast one, Hayes signaled for Feller's equally effective curve, or his new slider (a pitch that begins fading away from a right-handed hitter halfway down the alley). Said Feller: "I didn't shake off his signals once...
...Lean and leisurely John Tinney McCutcheon was crowding his deadline. His mind and drawing board were blank, and the bulldog edition over at the Chicago Tribune would wait just so long. Outside his studio window, there was a promise of fall in the hazy September air. He fell to daydreaming . . . on such a smoky afternoon, back home in Indiana, a boy might gaze at a cornfield studded with tattered golden shocks, and see them turn into Indian tepees. Idly he began to sketch. When the Tribune messenger arrived, he had finished his greatest cartoon. That was 39 years...
...independent movie producer, and lives in a four-bedroom house of "West Los Angeles baroque" which, he says, looks like a Cunard liner. He used to write Hollywood movie scripts at $2.750 a week. Before that, as managing editor of the old New York American, he liked to lean back in his editorial chair and play an accordion to drown out the roaring of the Hearst press. Earlier still, as a wild young newspaperman in Denver, he toted firearms in a city room, fell in love, married, wore Jack Dempsey's cinnamon-brown, pearl-buttoned overcoat on his honeymoon...
...right about the Colonel. That afternoon lean President Robert McLean adjourned the A.P. meeting. Colonel McCormick, standing by the microphone with his spectacles dangling from one ear, promptly boomed: "The meeting will come to order!" A.P. members, now sitting in carefully prearranged rump session, winked at each other. The unpurified Colonel then put forward a resolution that the A.P. itself did not want to endorse officially: urging Congress to put press associations beyond the reach of antitrust laws...
Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick, lean, carefully tailored and 55, was booted out of high school in his native Superior, Wis. when he was 16, because he wanted to draw "and they made me take algebra and stupid history courses." He worked his way through the Chicago Art Institute by sweeping floors mornings, working in a cafeteria for his lunch, ushering in a theater at night. On the side, he sold so many cartoons (for $1 apiece) to the Chicago Daily News that he soon had a regular job. In 1913, he went to the Post-Dispatch, has been there ever since...