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Divorced. Leland Stanford ("Larry'') MacPhail, 55, baseball's bleacher-lunged showman, now boss of the New York Yankees ; by Inez Thompson MacPhail, 55; after 34 years of marriage, five of separation...
Chairman. When one after another failed to muster a majority, it looked as though the meeting would wash out with a rain check. But the Yankees' new boss, irrepressible Larry MacPhail, demanded action, and threatened to "lock the door and keep it locked" until a new commissioner was named...
...York's Yankees, with Larry MacPhail now calling the front office shots, are praying twice a day that the Navy won't call up clouting Johnny Lindell. The Yanks still have the best manager in baseball: square-jawed Joe McCarthy...
...MacPhail and associates bought all the baseball property listed in your story for approximately $3 million, they have made the biggest "steal" in the history of baseball...
...question mark looms in the Yankee setup: how will quiet, efficient Manager Joe McCarthy hit it off with turbulent Larry MacPhail? MacPhail insists that he will limit his fire and energy to digging up ballplayers and keeping the stadium's 70,000 seats well-filled. Said McCarthy last week: "Everything will run all right...