Word: phils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter baseball meetings of 1956, O'Malley cornered his old friend Phil Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, and poured out his troubles. He wanted to buy the Cubs' minor-league franchise in Los Angeles. "I wanted to bring the New York situation to a head," says he blandly. "I wanted an anchor to windward." A couple of months later, O'Malley announced that Wrigley had agreed to sell, touching off the fanciest baseball guessing game since the Black Sox scandal...
...become, instead, a rather detailed study in the philosophy of history, apparently, with the wholehearted approval of the department. If this is to be its purpose, certainly we are all going about it in a rather silly fashion. Professor M. G. White teaches a very fine course, Phil 186, which appears to cover in one term what we now, as history majors, spread over a two year period. Moreover, our tutors, qualified as they undoubtedly are in their own fields, are not expert in problems of philosophy. Some have audited conscientiously Mr. White's course; most have...
...more prominent as their big brothers collapsed, the Ferrari brakes were shot. Burned-out linings dropped off in frightening ashy hunks. But they had lasted just long enough. The Ferraris rolled easily to a finish that was strictly a family affair. Collins and his co-driver, California's Phil Hill, coasted home first. Another factory-entered Ferrari was an easy second. In third place came a perky little Porsche Spyder (1,587 cc.) that had played it cozy all through the race, lying back waiting for the front runners to falter. Index of Performance prize, for the car that...
...Bill & Phil. Hoover briskly traces the story of Communism from its Utopian-socialist antecedents to the present, via the evil trinity of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Along the way, he makes clear that there is really no such thing as "democratic Marxism," and gives a systematic outline of Communist operations, including infiltration, espionage, front organizations, party discipline, party philosophy-the whole weird mixture of pedantry, conspiratorial byplay, childish incantations and deadly fanaticism...
Unfortunately, the accounts of Communists at work leave them strangely faceless and bearing mostly names like Bill and Phil. Hoover makes it plain that he is sensitive to charges of sensationalism that have been made against the FBI. Perhaps on this ground, he omitted all reference to the Hiss case, on which 263 agents of his bureau were engaged, although the chapter on "Espionage and Sabotage" would seem to call for it (Don Whitehead's The FBI Story, which Hoover underwrote, dealt with the case in some detail). Hoover's conclusion is a convincingly humble plea for Americans...