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...only 17 rival hurlers have lasted nine innings against them-and three of those lost. The potent hitting also helps to cancel out a couple of Cardinal weaknesses. The No. 1 team in the National League ranks No. 2 in committing errors afield. Nor is their pitching much to rave about. No St. Louis starter...
Usually Dave McClelland's cartoons are about the only thin to rave about, but this issue manages without him. Jonathan Cerf's full-spread cover would make a fairly sophisticated cover for the New Yorker--if he could draw an Ibis; Henry Beard's Arab-fish cartoon is reasonably amusing--which is all that Beard ever attemtps to be. He is a master at plucking the boredom or inanity out of anything or anyone, and for that talent his "Vanitas" is worth reading...
...Larry Gage obscurs what should be clear. Gage didn't encourage the rebel to rave and weep and spew out his god-damns. Richard Silberg never wallowed in some old lady's death, never whined about his life. Too much taste was his problem...
...Rave On, Samson! Cassius is seen most revealingly in the pages on the Champ's parents. His mother Odessa calls him Gee Gee, in honor of Cassius' first words. An unruffled mistress of the house, she shouts down her husband by yelling, "Rave on, Samson!" Cassius' determined will and his unwavering discipline are strictly the work of Odessa...
...legislature. He was trying to push through a bill streamlining the Slovenian health-insurance bureaucracy-for which over half of the deputies worked and thus were reluctant to see reorganized. Speaker after speaker rose to denounce Smole's proposed law. Tolerantly, the president let the deputies rant and rave, confident that when all was said, the party's will would be done as usual. But when he called for a vote, the measure, to his astonishment, was voted down...