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DIED. HAROLD HENRY ("Pee Wee") REESE, 81, Hall of Fame baseball shortstop and captain of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the team and began the historic racial integration of the sport. Reese's very public camaraderie with Robinson was crucial in dissipating the ugliness that greeted the rookie. Reese led the Dodgers to seven National League pennants and, in 1955, to Brooklyn's only world championship. He retired in 1958, after a year in the Dodgers' new home, Los Angeles...
...oils to bog down the sperm. Then there is homosexuality, a reproductively senseless but nevertheless deeply compelling sexual strategy for millions of both sexes. Not to mention masturbation, celebrated by rapper Foxy Brown's chart-topping song Ill Na Na, in which she promises to "hold my own like Pee Wee in a movie theater...I can do bad by my damn self." Men are not the species' only sex machines...
...paint got on the canvas. His public notoriety came in part from public resentment. Real artists lay watercolor washes or put glazes over body color, but this one just spilled liquids incontinently, as though painting were no more demanding than knocking over a cup of coffee or taking a pee. But when you look at these pictures, it isn't so. Pollock was a consummate aesthete. (The fact that he could also be a mean, drunken galoot doesn't gainsay that...
...DODGERS: Won 105 games. Great team with memorable players: Duke Snider and Carl Furillo, Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese. But they lost the Series to the '53 Yankees...
...into fame and myth: the New York Times devoted its entire front page to Lindbergh and his flight. When Lindbergh visited England on the way home, King George V greeted him and said, "Now tell me, Captain Lindbergh. There is one thing I long to know. How did you pee?" New York's Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes welcomed him home: "I greet you as the first and finest American boy." TIME beatified Lindbergh as its first Man of the Year...