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...Lane complained that Manager Joe Gordon would need a miracle to win, added that he was eying four or five other men for the job next year. Gordon promptly quit, and an offer promptly went out to the leading candidate on Lane's little list: the terrible-tempered Leo Durocher, former manager of the Dodgers and Giants, who quit his $65,000-a-year job with NBC-TV with the announced intention of returning to baseball...
Southbury, Conn., Playhouse: Third Best Sport, a comedy by Eleanor and Leo Bayer...
Windfall. In Hartford, Conn., after stirring up a row when he announced that police would use unmarked cars to catch speeders, State Police Commissioner Leo J. Mulcahy felt vindicated when someone slashed the tires of eleven well-marked patrol cars outside the police barracks...
Last week through their Washington attorney, Leo DeOrsey (who charged no fee), the astronauts announced their Boswell: LIFE. For some $500,000 to be split seven equal ways, LIFE bought the exclusive right to all seven personal diaries of the astronauts' experiences leading up to and including the first trips into space. The men early decided on the seven-way split (actually 14, since the astronauts' wives are contract signatories) on the common-sense ground that though only one man could be first up, the other six will probably follow...
Metal Badge. Amazed by the tunic's power to draw pilgrims, Pope Leo X and the Archbishop of Trier agreed to display it every seven years. Although wars, revolutions and the Reformation stopped its regular appearance, Tunica Domini never lost its appeal. In 1810 about 250,000 pilgrims went to see it, and at the last showing, in 1933, the tally was 2,000,000. Since Cologne's Joseph Cardinal Frings unveiled the tunic for the 1959 pilgrimage last month, almost a million Roman Catholics have visited the cathedral...