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After one year as Andover's Chaplain and a second at Williams College, he came home to roost at Yale, where he's been ever since...
Running the Roost. And what was happening to the Cards without Keane? Nothing so terrible. Another old Redbird was running the roost: Red Schoendienst, 42, the second most popular man in St. Louis-next to Stan Musial, of course. Stricken with tuberculosis in 1958, Schoendienst had part of a lung removed, came back to bat .300 in both 1961 and 1962. Red worked as a coach for Keane last year, and he obviously picked up a few pointers. He announced a midnight curfew, took to the field himself to demonstrate how to elude a rundown...
...Elijah wanted was a chance to give Malcolm his comeuppance-and in 1963 Malcolm offered him the opportunity. After President Kennedy's assassination, Malcolm publicly called the murder a case of "the chickens coming home to roost." Cried he: "Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad...
...everything. The occasion required a vigorous black knight. Many questioners egged him on to rhetoric about white devils; few asked about his program of political action. Most wanted to know about the doctrine of self-defense. Still others asked why he said, "chickens come home to roost" in reference to President Kennedy's assassination. He was a "dancing bear." The audience wanted him to perform--and the code forced him to duel...
...world wars took an even heavier toll. The cathedral's stainedglass windows, removed to protect them from bombing raids, were replaced by sheets of oilcloth, which soon developed gaping holes, admitting not only rain and wind but also squadrons of pigeons that fancied the organ pipes as a roost. For years afterwards, repairmen were extracting pigeon skeletons from the pipes; some pipes have already caved in, while others are held together with string...