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...carried water and kept score." But his particular affection for "the fundamental grid, the geometric beauty of baseball" has always been profound. "My first glove was one left behind by an American soldier in Italy." Giamatti's father Valentine was there on sabbatical from the languages department at Mount Holyoke College. Though Italian enough to feel possessive of DiMaggio ("Yes, both of them; all three of them, as a matter of fact"), "Bart" was born in Boston. "I wanted to be (Second Baseman) Bobby Doerr, to tell you the truth." By wretched geography, he has been shackled for life...
Since 1945, Boeing has had only two top men: William Allen and T.A. Wilson, who took over as chairman in 1972. Wilson, like Allen before him, has run a tough, efficient operation with very few frills. While many Seattle offices look out on picturesque Puget Sound and snowcapped Mount Rainier, Boeing's corporate headquarters faces a railroad track and an airstrip in a grimy industrial zone. A down-to-earth Missourian, Wilson, 65, has been known to drop in on the machinists' annual Christmas party with one of his wife's pecan pies. During the airline-industry slump...
...graduate schools. Since each graduate school is responsible for soliciting its own donations, a system known as "every tub on its own bottom," the schools with the richest alumni roll in the money, while the poorest schools struggle with debt. While the Medical School, the richest graduate school, will mount a $200 million fund drive this summer, the Divinity and Design Schools are trying to stay out of the debt that they suffered last year...
...Thursday, an Air Force sergeant happened onto a backpack at the 8,300-ft. level. There searchers located the remaining climbers, by then buried three days under deep snow. They swiftly airlifted all eight to Portland hospitals. Doctors revived two students. The six others were dead. The tragedy was Mount Hood's worst...
There would be no consoling answers to such questions--and no answers at all from soaring, indifferent Mount Hood...