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Birtwell, 25, was forced to sit out the beginning of the season, before making his debut for the high-A Lakeland Tigers of the Florida State League in mid April...
...humdrum, confused life of mid-twentysomethings has a ready accomplice in the sprawling shopping malls and freeway-bound office parks of New Jersey, the stuff that nightmares and dreams are made of for the expanse of anonymous, white-housed suburbia that hums between the on-ramps. The staples of quiet, middle-class Garden State living are all here, sans the last PATH train back from the city. Like those who’ve never been, Largeman (we can imagine him telling his L.A. friends he grew up in New York) has no inclination to go back, only an obligation...
LOURDES, France—"I must be the only New York City Jew for hundreds of miles," I think as I walk down the street towards the famous Grotto, one of the world's most visited Catholic pilgrimage sites, where in the mid-19th century St. Bernadette is said to have had a vision of the Virgin. After a restless overnight train, I am armed with my notebook and my Let's Go press pass, ready to be fascinated, repelled and intrigued. I'm not ready...
Dillinger is the only one whose tremendous charisma survives Burrough's research intact. Smart, good-natured and media savvy, he had a genius for improvisational humor. When a cop walked into a bank mid-robbery, Dillinger greeted him with a hearty "Come right in and join us!" He was also as tough as nails. In one harrowing scene, he undergoes amateur plastic surgery to alter his appearance (tragically, they filled in his dashing cleft chin). As for his colleagues--alas, the truth about "Pretty Boy" Floyd isn't pretty at all. But it's a whole...
...family moved to New York City in the mid-1930s, and as a teenager Kryzanowska started classes at the School of American Ballet. Legendary choreographer George Balanchine co-founded the school in 1934, shortly after his arrival in the U.S., to train students for what eventually became the New York City Ballet. Several years later, Kryzanowska developed a painful bone chip in her ankle, and to help her avoid surgery, Balanchine took her to Joseph Pilates. A German immigrant, Pilates, assisted by his wife Clara, had developed a method of body conditioning that was garnering quite a following among...