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...Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P-L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The famed immigrant warrior against the English language is back with the same old tsplit infinitifs and dobble nagetifs, and he is just as funny as ever...
...Leo Roston, there is no Harvard for Hyman Kaplan; not until the Fuller Construction Company leaves Quincy House's transient guest suite. Kaplan's motto is, "always go high." Maybe he'd best wait for the Leverett Towers...
...RETURN OF H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (192 pp.)-Leo Rosten, -Harper...
...members of the Baltimore police department's K-9 Corps have a demoralizing effect on lawbreakers. Last year the three dozen dogs were credited with assisting in close to 500 arrests, but their greatest value, says Inspector Leo T. Kelly, is the "deterrent effect" of their mere presence on the streets. In the three years since the city's K-9 Corps got started-with two dogs-Baltimore has been one of the few big cities in the U.S. where crime rates have dropped...
...Little Shepherd of Coogan's Bluff, Leo Durocher, led the Giants from a position 13 1/2 games behind in August to a tie on the last day of the season. The clubs split the first two playoff encounters. In the finale, with the Giants trailing 4 to 1 going into the last of the ninth, Alvin Dark led off with a single. Another single by Don Mueller sent Dark to third, and Dark scored on a double by Whitey Lockman. Then Bobby Thomson bashed his immortal home run and the New Yorkers were home free...