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Like a dignified dowager being escorted into a drawing room, the glistening white ship moved up New York's harbor last week. A Navy blimp, helicopters, patrol boats, tugs and water-tossing fireboats hovered around her. A "home-longing pennant"-42 meters long for the 42 months she was abuilding-fluttered from her aftermast. Other liners roared their welcomes to the Swedish American Line's Kungsholm* newest addition to the North Atlantic fleet and a big sister to the Gripsholm...
Back in late September, flushed with the achievement of leading the Dodgers to their second National League pennant in a row, Charley Dressen had sat him down to compose a letter to O'Malley & Co. In forceful phrases, the letter pointed out that the managers of several also-rans had got three-year contracts: Charley Grimm of the second-place Milwaukee Braves, Eddie Stanky of the fourth-place St. Louis Cardinals. Even Leo Durocher-especially Leo Durocher-of the fifth-place New-York Giants, had been given a two-year contract. Charley Dressen demanded a raise-(from...
...inconceivable to Charley, too. At week's end he agreed to manage the seventh-place Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League next year, the same team he led to a pennant in 1950. The Dodgers seemed in no hurry to replace him. "I might say the woods are full of managers," said Walter O'Malley...
...last week one of the hottest Dodger teams in years had run away with the National League race, won 98 games while losing only 44, and clinched the pennant with twelve still to play. Reading the statistics, wiseacres made the Dodgers favorites to beat the American League's New York Yankees in the Series and win their first World's Championship...
Even more important, Dressen's 1953 Dodgers have played their best when the chips were down. Last year the Dodgers fattened up on second-division clubs, lost to the strong teams. This year Brooklyn trampled all opposition, won 30 of its last 37 games in the pennant drive. Growls Dressen : "We're in no mood to coast. The series will take care of itself." Faith in an Old Habit. Brooklyn will need its power. In the American League, the Yankees have made the same kind of runaway; this week, by beating second-place Cleveland...