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...Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten records a joke about the Lipshitz Curse: a blond at a charity ball is wearing an enormous diamond. She boasts that there are three great diamonds in the world-the Hope, the Kohinoor and her own, the Lipshitz. But, unfortunately, she tells her friends, with the Lipshitz diamond comes the Lipshitz Curse. "The Lipshitz Curse? What is the Lipshitz Curse?" The blond sighs: "Lipshitz...
George Steinbrenner is the Lipshitz of the New York Yankees. He lavishes seven-figure, even eight-figure contracts on his players. But with the money comes the curse of George. Some Yankees wonder if the pay is adequate to cover the ordeal...
...Rosten casts Lipshitz as a husband. Steinbrenner is more like an archetypal father. When he is up for the role, he is a perfect family tyrant: overbearing, insufferable, unembarrassable, the kind of man who makes scenes in public and mortifies his children. The Pittsburgh Pirates used to describe themselves as "family." That was sentimentality. The Yankees are more like a grimly real family: sullen and bruised by grievances and quarrelsome and full of parricidal silences. Presiding over the drama is the militaristic alldaddy, Steinbrenner as the Great Santini. He thunders, and acquires a certain force of nature...
Longest Pass in Harvard-Yale game: 27 rows. In 1924, in the thick of Prohibition, Yale student Wally Lipshitz started the alcoholic bucket brigade which eventually saw a half-gallon of Wild Turkey inhaled in 17 minutes...
...that 23 of 71 Bund units listed by Witness Kuhn were concentrated in and near New York City, Congressman Starnes wondered out loud whether this was because of the aircraft and naval manufacturing plants handy for sabotage in that area. Cried Mr. Kuhn: "That's the same thing Lipshitz said. You know who Lipshitz is? That's Walter Winchell. Lipshitz is his real name...