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Predictions about the weather often wrong; so also are predictions about the Red Sox chances winning the pennant, and Long Andy's hot tip of the day. But is still hope. One other prediction that has in the past borne relation to reality came true, year. Harvard finally guessed advance how many people were going to Summer School...
...hapless heroes of the Broadway musical Damn Yankees were so hopelessly stuck in seventh place that only the Devil could help them win the league pennant. It was art imitating life, except that in the late 1950s the Devil himself could not rescue the real-life Washington Senators. They were the most miserable team in the American League...
Beating the New York Yankees, that's how. Exactly twice in the last 16 years, the Yankees have lost the American League pennant-both times to Al Lopez. He won in 1954 with the Cleveland Indians, a team that batted .262, slugged 156 home runs and won a league-record 111 games. He won again in 1959 with the "GoGo" White Sox, a team that batted .250 and hit only 97 homers but stole 113 bases...
Mightier Than the Ford. Now he is shooting for pennant No. 3, with a curious collection of castoffs and youngsters that Lopez calls "the best-balanced team I have ever coached." Last week the injury-ridden Yanks (TIME, May 14) were languishing in eighth place, taking their lumps from the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators. Outfielder Roger Maris was still out with a pulled muscle in his thigh; Catcher Elston Howard, his right arm in a cast, was earning his keep as a TV announcer. Star Pitcher Whitey Ford (1964 record: 17-6) lost his fourth straight game...
...want to hear about your grades, your College Boards, or your National Merit scores. Let's just find out what type of person you are." At the end of an hour we had discussed teen-age drinking, Viet Nam, the influence of Christianity on America, and the pennant race. Harvard's interview committee was roughly equivalent: "We want to know if you can express your ideas forcefully, originally and cogently...