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...Which for 16 years (1929-45) helped run the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, as one of the executors of the estate of the late baseball magnate Charles H. Ebbets. After the hapless Dodgers had wallowed in the second division for five years straight, the bank hired Larry MacPhail as general manager in 1938. MacPhail drove the Dodgers to a National League pennant in 1941, paid off a mountain of debts (some $500,000 to the Brooklyn Trust) by 1942. †The top four: Bank of America, National City Bank of New York, Chase National Bank, and Guaranty Trust...
...McCarthy suddenly resigned from the Yankees "for reasons of health," after a series of front-office rows with President Larry MacPhail. Coaxed out of retirement in 1948 by the Red Sox, he lost the pennant on the last day of the season, two years in a row. Always hard to get along with, never a good loser, McCarthy rushed home at season's end last fall without even discussing a new contract. Last week, after his favored Red Sox dropped eleven out of 13 games, he finally gave...
...first feature assignment. Director Mackendrick has some expert allies: the players, besides Radford, include Wylie Watson, Gordon Jackson and a fetching blonde named Joan Greenwood. Best of all, he has an unerring screenplay, based on Compton Mackenzie's novel, Whisky Galore, and written by Mackenzie and Angus Macphail. The script savors the cream of the jest, wastes not a drop and ends gracefully with a wry concession to the moral superiority of teetotalers...
...series also left the Dodgers with a managerial problem. Rowdy Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, whose suspension for a year from baseball was partly brought on by Larry MacPhail (TIME. April 21), had served his sentence. Boss Rickey had to choose between him and 62-year-old Burt Shotton, who had stepped into his place and won a pennant without kicking dust on a single umpire. Rickey had long conferences with both last week, and said nothing...
...McCarthy, who quit MacPhail's Yankees last year, became field boss of the Boston Red Sox, replacing Joe Cronin...