Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Visitors rarely stay long at San Clemente, so as not to tire Nixon. Pat Nixon spends much of her time working in her vegetable gardens, and both Nixons enjoy frequent stays by their married daughters, Julie and Tricia. Other recent visitors have included former Nixon Lieutenants John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman, Herb Klein, Nixon's former communications director, Physician John Lungren, former Assistant HEW Secretary Patricia Reilley Hitt and his millionaire pals Robert Abplanalp and Bebe Rebozo...
...FALSE SPRING by PAT JORDAN 277 pages. Dodd, Mead...
...recollects, he was a family man, an inspirational leader who could exhort his players in a style that might make Pat O'Brien misty. His enmities, claims Leo, were transient, his friendships permanent. Sidney Weil, onetime owner of the Cincinnati Reds, with whom the Lip did many a dubious battle, is "the nicest, kindest man I have ever known." Ed Barrow of the Yankees, a notorious Durocher rival, is "the best friend I had in baseball." Branch Rickey, another erstwhile enemy, is "the great man" in Leo's life...
Durocher may be right: nice guys often end as also-rans-but they seem to write better baseball books. Pat Jordan, a frequent contributor to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is a failure by all professional baseball standards. But it is in the dissection of that failure that his book discloses the dimensions of a man and a game. The young pitcher's career was the polar opposite of Durocher's. A native of Bridgeport, Conn., Jordan was a spectacular Little Leaguer; by the time he reached high school, the Milwaukee Braves awarded him a $35,000 bonus. Sent...
...them athletic. Moreover, his loss is the reader's gain, for out of Ex-Pitcher Jordan's experience has come one of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity hi America. Leo Durocher's book is worth reading. Pat Jordan's is worth remembering...