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...Redlegs skidded to last place this season. Birdie, who once said, "A manager should never quit," decided last week to resign, became the fourth major-league manager to bow out this year (the others: Detroit's Jack Tighe, Cleveland's Bobby Bragan, Philadelphia's Mayo Smith). Best bet to succeed him: fiery, onetime Big-League Infielder (Cubs, Dodgers, Braves, Giants, Cardinals) and Manager (Cardinals) Eddie Stanky. ¶ Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn, winner of the 1958 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, runner-up in the Belmont Stakes even though he fractured a sesamoid bone during the race...
...Likable, low-pressure Mayo Smith was rudely fired after more than three years of indifferent success as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, was replaced by onetime (1948-52) Phils' Manager Eddie Sawyer, last man to lead the team to a pennant...
...Gave its annual distinguished-service award to Frank Hammond Krusen, 60, professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Mayo Foundation (affiliated with the University of Minnesota), an expert on the crippling caused by arthritis...
Through the streets of Rochester, Minn, to the jampacked Mayo Civic Auditorium rolled an eight-car motorcade and four-piece band complete with a noisy sousaphone. It was Minnesota's Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party convention, and for the first time in years there were signs of polite dissension inside U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey's and Governor Orville Freeman's tight-knit organization as the D.F.L. settled back to choose a candidate to run for Eisenhower Republican Ed Thye's Senate seat. The contenders: St. Paul's Eugene McCarthy, 42, onetime St. John's University...
...western end of County Mayo, between Blacksod Bay and the thundering combers of the Atlantic, lies Mullet Peninsula. Here, where Gaelic is spoken from infancy and not learned painfully in the schools, the scanty human population is kept busy propitiating fairies, changelings, merrows, leprechauns, banshees, pookas, cluricaunes, far darrigs, fear-gortas and headless dallahans, who all like to amuse themselves by turning milk sour, making cows break their legs, laming horses, or defying the machine age by overturning tractors and hurling rocks bigger than themselves into machinery...