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...surrounded by the city." Any time Lombardi wants to quit, he can take his pick of offers from half a dozen other pro teams. The latest, from the last-place Los Angeles Rams: $100,000 in cash, $100,000 worth of life insurance, title to a furnished house, and, natch, a piece of an oil well. Says N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle dryly: "Another club offered Vince a whole oil well...
...former St. Louis Browns' farm hand, Joey has fanned 110 of his last 123 batters, looks as promising as any of the three former Little Leaguers* who are now in the majors. What does Joey want to be when he grows up? "A baseball player, natch...
...years ago, when she was only eleven, pretty, brown-eyed Melody Sachko (rhymes with Natch, Joe) had plodded through to the finals of the annual Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. But that time, the Pittsburgh policeman's daughter tripped over atelier (she spelled it "ate-lia") and wound up in sixth place. Then Melody's mother, Natalie, took over. She drilled Melody over the dishwashing, left her little time for her favorite diversion: shooting pool in the basement. Thumbing through dictionaries, Natalie Sachko typed out some 25,000 words-each with its correct pronunciation and meaning-on individual...
SEALED IT OVER PHEASANT, NATCH...
...They were 1947's chief fad everywhere. Another fad: "shorty" coats (known in some stores as "swallow tails"). In Chicago, Marshall Field's offered a shorty specialty which was going like hot cakes among teenagers: a "hot-jive jacket" of yellow plastic with such sharp legends as "Natch" and "Slick Chick" printed on it. The "slicker" days of the twenties were back...