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DIED. James King Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 79, bandleader and self-styled "Old Perfessor" of radio's Kollege of Musical Knowledge from 1933 to 1949, whose weekly mix of dance music, comedy and quiz questions drew as many as 20 million listeners and earned him a remarkable $1 million in 1940; of a heart attack; in Chapel Hill, N.C. A popular USO entertainer in World War II, he had several hits, including On a Slow Boat to China and the nonsense ditty Three Little Fishes. He retired from performing in 1950 and worked thereafter for the Christian Science Church...
...Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing up in the Oklahoma dust, of Joe DiMaggio's icy remoteness, of Casey Stengel's Old Perfessor act that slipped on and off like a warmup jacket, of Billy Martin's violent insecurities, of the Hodgkin's disease that killed his father and afflicts his son. There is considerably more than towel snapping here. At the age of 54, it seems, Mickey Mantle has finally grown...
This time of year thou mayest in Casey Stengel behold a lot of the old juice. As he has for the past 52 years, "the perfessor," 75, arrived for spring training, flying to the New York Mets' camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., where he started a verbal pepper game with the press. Though he retired as Mets manager in 1965, Case still works as their West Coast scout, and after looking over the lads, he announced: "The future of this here ball club is brighter." For one thing, said Case, there is Tommy Davis, acquired from the Los Angeles...
...other end of the standings, in ineffable New York Mets, with "Perfessor" Casey Stengel presiding, drew 922,530 shrieking, cheering, banner-waving partisans to the Polo Grounds last year. The Mets finished last by 60½ games. This year the bloom is off the sage. Big crowds still turn out when the Dodgers come to town, or the San Francisco Giants. But only 6,505 paying customers were on hand last week to see the Mets lose to the Houston Colts, 8-0-their 16th loss in 17 games. From somewhere amid the blank spots in the bleachers came...
McCurdy, explaining this stratogy after the meet, matched Casey Stengel in the Perfessor's peroids of greatest lucidity: "Well, I was figuring on 721/2 points, and I know we were ahead of that because of what those fellers done for me in the 880, but I know we needed second and third even though I thought he had the meet clinched, and I didn't know which of those fellers could stand up, so I used all of them...