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...Detroit Tigers on Aug. 19, 1951, and stepped up to lead off for the Browns in the second game. As expected, Gaedel walked on four pitches and retired from baseball. Next day the American League barred all midgets. Veeck talked about demanding a ruling on whether Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto, at 5 ft. 6 in., was a short ballplayer or a tall midget...
TIME's readers are also literate, informed and involved, and they write to TIME in impressive numbers, an average of 54,000 letters a year. British Journalist Phil Pearman has compiled some 1,900 excerpts into Dear Editor: Letters to Time Magazine 1923-1984 (Lansdowne Press; $24.95). It includes such memorable contributions as Franklin Roosevelt's compliment to the magazine as a "pioneer and innovator, [with an] originality that has been refreshing and oftentimes delightful" (Feb. 28, 1938) and Bob Hope's complaint that he had been "flattered in reverse as only TIME usually does" (Oct. 11, 1943). The project...
...ensuing three months Zadora's U.S. concert tour has radically improved her image: cinema's laughingstock has suddenly blossomed into a serious singer of such pop classics as It Had to Be You, Maybe This Time and For Once in My Life. An album, Pia and Phil (short for Philharmonic), has also been well received. "I'm thrilled," says Zadora. "A whole new world is opening up." Apparently so. In two weeks she will make her debut on the hallowed stage of New York's Carnegie Hall. Who would have ever guessed...
...went to the podium to collect his fourth Phil Moriarty Award—given to the EISL meet’s top performer—the Blodgett Pool record wall cataloging the best all-time performances by Harvard swimmers hung right above...
Being on trial for murder is a hair-raising experience, no doubt about it. So let's all forgive PHIL SPECTOR for the 'fro he sported in court last week, where the storied pop-music producer stands accused of having shot actress Lana Clarkson at his home in 2003. (The high heels he wore to court are less explicable.) The judge decided to allow testimony from four women claiming that Spector--who in better days worked with the likes of the Beatles--threatened them with guns. The defense called the accusations completely untrue and said the women were just seeking...