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...GEORGE RICKEY - Staempfli, 47 East 77th. Calder is not the only artist who keeps sculpture moving. Rickey and Bury (see below) are both kinetic craftsmen, and their galleries share the same floor...
...sixth-place St. Louis Cardinals might be in need of new ideas, but hardly the kind served up by newly hired Consultant Branch Rickey, 80. The old Mahatma's idea-to retire Stan ("The Man") Musial, 41-produced such a roar that Club President August A. Busch Jr., 63, felt compelled to soothe the outraged fans. With a .330 batting average last season, Stan will stay as long as he likes, said Brewer Busch, and when he wants to quit he has a job as a Cardinal vice president. In St. Petersburg. Fla., sharpening up young hitters, Stan...
...baseball Galbreath is also looking for a champion. He plunked down $400,000 in 1946 to become a member of a four-man syndicate (another member: Bing Crosby) that bought the ailing Pittsburgh Pirates. Four years later he got control (70%), took over as president and brought in Branch Rickey as general manager. Rickey signed up hundreds of young players, but the cure was slow. In the past decade the Pirates have usually finished way down, and Galbreath tossed in $1,500,000 to make up losses. This year things are different. At week's end the Pirates were...
...accepted or rejected? The decisions often seemed downright whimsical. At McLean (Va.) High School, David Stanley, 18, top boy in his class, was turned down by Swarthmore, which accepted Jerry Nelson, 16, whose grades were mediocre. At New York City's Andrew Jackson High School. Rickey Field, 18, was accepted by Harvard, Princeton and Columbia, but turned down by the University of Michigan. At New York's Riverdale Country School, James Avary, 18, applied only to Princeton. His College Board English and math aptitude scores averaged only 580 (out of a possible 800), but he was accepted...
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 19--The proposed third major league, the Continental, does not plan to operate in 1960. When it does function it will pay reasonable compensation for territorial rights, President Branch Rickey of the proposed loop assured minor league chief George M. Trautman today following a remonstrative telegram from the latter...