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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years and 23 minor-league victories later, McNally made his debut with the Orioles by pitching a two-hit shutout against the Kansas City Athletics and winning a permanent place in the starting rotation. But then he became one of those supposedly sure bets that never quite pays off. Until last year, he had only one good season (13-6); that was 1966, the year the Orioles won the pennant and took the World Series in four straight. In 1967, he tore a tendon and developed something of a paunch, finished the year with a disappointing 7-7 record. Before...
...special, desperate breed. He is blessed - or cursed - with an automatic mechanism for justifying the folly of sticking around and for "reassuring himself that his prospects are still good." The point in a line where pessimists shade into optimists, Mann and Taylor imply, is a good place for cooler heads to decide on quitting...
...dramatic use of chiaroscuro, these pictures had much in common stylistically with Edouard Vuillard and Art Nouveau. When Daniel in the Lion's Den was shown in the Paris Salon in 1896, the famous French history painter Jean-Leon Gerome insisted that it be given a place of honor. When the Raising of Lazarus was shown in 1897, it was awarded a medal and purchased by the French government for the Luxembourg Gallery...
Summer Rally. The Neuwirth Fund, which last year soared 90% in per-share value to rank No. 1 in the U.S., fell 16% in the first half and dropped to 305th place. The Mates Investment Fund, which gained 73% last year, has fallen to No. 367. Gibraltar Growth, which was in third place in 1968, dropped 13% and is now 254th...
...contrast, the larger, older funds, which tend to balance their investments between growth stocks and blue chips, stood up fairly well in the declining mar ket. Investors Mutual, the largest of all, fell only 4.1% and rose in the standings from 245th place to 33rd. Massachusetts Investors Trust fell 4.5% and moved up from 228th to 38th. Normally, any losses at all would be nothing to crow about, but so far this year only 95 funds have managed to out perform the Dow Jones average, which dropped...