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...astrologers and about 100,000 part-timers who collect an estimated $100 million a year from among the more than 10 million true believers (80% of them female). Nearly 1,000 U.S. newspapers, with a daily circulation of some 40 million, carry astrological columns with such thumbnail profundities as: "Leo (July 22 to August 21) : Avoid investing unwisely or trying to outdo the experts when you have not had sufficient practice or knowledge. Listen intently instead. Stand up under pressure admirably...
...Reds' three starters, Jim O'Toole, Joey Jay, and Bob Purkey are all having fine years, although O'Toole's 12-12 won-lost record might not indicate as much. Short-stop Leo Gardenas and second-baseman Don Blasingame are holding up well, and at first base, cast-off Marty Keough has done some timely power hitting...
Died. Burton Edwin Shotton, 77, one of baseball's least noisy and best liked managers, who twice replaced Leo ("The Lip") Durocher as skipper of the Brooklyn Dodgers, taking over in 1947 after Durocher drew a season's suspension for feuding with Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail, and coming back again in 1948 after Durocher quit to manage the New York Giants, twice piloted the Dodgers to National League pennants; of a heart attack; in Lake Wales...
...Pollak Lectures were established in 1954 by a gift of Leo Silver, in honor of the Austrian-born journalist and literary critic. They are intended to deal with some aspect of the study of government and to encourage careers in government administration and politics...
Kraft Mystery Theater (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Louis Hayward, Signe Hasso, Leo G. Carroll and Audrey Dalton in a melodrama about a couple who grow tired of their marriage and decide that murder is the quickest way to freedom...