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London's tabloid Daily Mirror is Britain's earthiest daily and the world's biggest (circ. 4,500,000). Until last week, its undisputed boss was 67-year-old Harry Guy Bartholomew, who was responsible for its pepperpot tone and all-out backing of Labor. Last week, after 50 years on the Mirror, "Mister Bart" was out. He was retiring, said the board of directors, because of his "advancing years and an earnest desire to promote the advancement of younger men." Actually, at a turbulent meeting of the Mirror board, Mister Bart was voted out of power...
...someone usually came up with the game-winning hit at the right time. They began running the base paths with a hell-for-leather dash. The pitchers, steadied by Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen (23 victories apiece), settled down to a routine rotation. Shortstop Dark teamed up perfectly with pepperpot Second Baseman Eddie Stanky, gobbled up double-play balls by the drove (team, total...
...Brooklyn Dodgers, who came within two games of winning the National League pennant last season, dismissed Manager Burt Shotton, longtime friend of the departed Branch Rickey. Brooklyn's new manager: pepperpot Charley Dressen, 52, onetime Brooklyn coach in the razzle-dazzle era of Larry MacPhail and Leo Durocher, manager last season of the Oakland Oaks, Pacific Coast League champions. Dressen, who got a one-year contract, said that his policy could be expressed very simply: "To win games for Brooklyn...
Bunker Hill. Apart from Southworth, the Braves got most of their early-season drive from pepperpot Second Baseman Eddie Stanky, late of the Dodgers, almost a "playing coach" until he broke his ankle on a slide. It was Stanky who helped Rookie Shortstop Alvin Dark (now batting .331) off to his sensational start. Even without Stanky, Billy's boys picked up speed. For pitching, Southworth relied on two work horses-tobacco-chewing right-hander Johnny Sain, with two 20-game seasons under his belt, and lefthander Warren Spahn...
Billy, a balding wise man in his 50s, had brought hustle and hope to the Braves (they hadn't won a pennant in 34 years). Pepperpot Eddie Stanky, a refugee from Durocher's Brooklyn, added spark to the infield before breaking an ankle fortnight ago, which will keep him out of the lineup for 60 days. Outfielder Tommy Holmes put zing into the batting order. Southworth didn't seem to be worried about Durocher's new Giants, or Shotton's new Dodgers-only about his old alma mater, the St. Louis Cardinals, "who stand...