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Reason Enough. In Detroit, Mrs. Dorothy Roe got a divorce after she testified that her husband Gene inspected the kitchen garbage before she threw it away, bawled her out if he found the potato peelings too thick. In Indianapolis, Mrs. Maryellen Dillman got a divorce after she testified that her husband carefully watched wrestling on TV, afterwards practiced the holds...
...NATO planemakers develop a lightweight jet fighter-bomber, small enough to operate from short airstrips close to the lines, yet big enough to carry a tactical Abomb. The three most likely candidates: Britain's Folland "Gnat" (TIME, Aug. 3), a new delta-wing jet designed by A. V. Roe & Co., and a light French plane, the "Baroudeur," that can reportedly nudge the speed of sound...
...season. Their sluggers led by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider and Carl Furillo, had rolled up 208 homers to the Yankees' 139. True, the Yankee pitching staff was rich in veterans with the habit of winning in the World Series, but in Carl Erskine (20-6), Preacher Roe (11-3) and Billy Loes (14-8) Charley Dressen's Brooklyns had a certified crew of winners, too. Growled old National Leaguer Rogers Hornsby: "If the Dodgers don't beat the Yankees this time, they ought to cut their throats...
Second Game. What started as a southpaw pitching duel between Brooklyn's Preacher Roe and the Yankee's Eddie Lopat blew up in a Yankee victory in the eighth, when Mickey Mantle slammed a two-run homer to break a 2-2 tie. The Dodgers outhit the Yanks nine hits to five, but then left ten men stranded on the bases. Score: Yankees, 4; Dodgers...
Outhit by the Dodgers, 9 to 5, the rallying Yanks tied the score on Billy Martin's homer in the seventh. Then Mantle's blast, following a single by Bauer, finished Roe...