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...forget. He has wiry, bowed legs, a workaday wit, and an air of mock modesty. "I'm an apple-knocker," he likes to say, "and I'm against all city slickers." He was also quite a ballplayer in his day. Under the late great John J. McGraw of the Giants, he smashed a crucial home run in the 1923 World Series, and vigorously thumbed his nose at the Yankees all the way round the bases. The mantle of dignity is one article of clothing that Casey Stengel, 58, has never donned...
Died. Arthur Devlin, 68, fast, scrappy shortstop and third baseman for John McGraw's rowdy championship New York Giants in the 1900s; of a heart ailment; in Jersey City...
...Martinet. Manager Billy Southworth had come a long way-up, down and up-since he was a Braves outfielder 27 years ago. He had been a Giant under John McGraw, then one of the swaggering St. Louis Cardinals when they won the 1926 World Series. Three years later, Billy the Kid became manager of the Cards-and promptly got his nickname changed to Billy the Heel. The bristling "boy martinet" forbade his old buddies to drive their own cars, clocked them in at night, was fired in midseason when morale and the Cards hit the skids...
...like Communists the day after a switch in the party line. They grudgingly admitted that Leo would give the Giants a belligerent air. He might even breathe some fire into a club which hadn't known a man-sized blaze since the late great John J. McGraw left 16 years ago. Leo was the McGraw type-aggressive, hot-tempered, hell on umpires and a great tactician...
...Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith denied that Magidoff had ever used the diplomatic mail. McGraw-Hill said that the queries were round-robin copies sent to several of the World News bureaus. Magidoff had not answered the query about underground plants. Nevertheless, Russia's Foreign Office ordered Magidoff out of the country...