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...other players on the squad were offered pro contracts, center-fielder Bill Kelly and shortstop Dan Demichele. In the batting order, Kelly is third, Varney fourth and Demichele fifth. Three pros...
Play like Pros...
There is more than just statistics to this squad. They look and act like pros. From Chico Garcia's chatter in the infield to Fran Saba's 450-foot home run against previously-undefeated Brown, even to the way Varney strikes out, this team is pro. Something about it is smooth and relaxed. They make their opponents look like little league...
Engulfed by Bluegrass. With the encroachments of records, radio and TV, the oldtime music is inevitably giving way to "modern," or "bluegrass"-a slicker, more heterogeneous style influenced by big-city commercial pros. "We are being engulfed by bluegrass," lamented one of the judges at Union Grove last week. But if the fiddlers' convention can do nothing about the dilution of folk traditions, it can at least draw the line somewhere. Brass instruments and drums are forbidden, and Convention Organizer J. P. Van Hoy says: "Some people a few years ago tried to play rock 'n' roll...
Lindsay called the student political activity prior to the New Hampshire and Wisconsin primaries--which, he said, "has stunned all the pros"--a "source of political ferment which is changing the course of history." Lindsay urged students to "demand more than what you have gotten until America comes home again...