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Bill Veeck, new president of the St. Louis Browns, and Fred Saigh, president of the Cardinals (who have hardly spoken to each other for the past six months), called off their feud long enough to appear as Romeo and Juliet on a local radio show for the Red Cross blood bank. Picked by the studio audience, Veeck played Romeo to Saigh's Juliet. Said Veeck later-"I congratulated him. He made a dignified Juliet. It was purely platonic...
...real productions"-fireworks and aerial bombs which loose parachuting Old Glories, parades, dancing, and a pantomimistcontortionist in the role of first-base coach. Such zany antics are not likely to have much effect on the Browns' standing in the league. But to the disgust of Cardinal President Fred Saigh, who has yet to exchange a word with brash Bill Veeck, the Browns are pulling their biggest crowds of the year...
...raise still leaves him well below the club ceiling (Pitcher Bob Feller's $50,000). But it was a rough jolt for Stan the Man, now 30, who knows that he has only five or six years more of big-league earning power at best. Cardinal President Fred Saigh immediately announced he would appeal the ruling. Major Leaguer Musial, who spent one earning year in the U.S. Navy, was not so hopeful: "If it's the law, there isn't anything I can do but abide...
...elect him to his $65,000 job as baseball commissioner; the best he could get from the club owners in Miami Beach this week was nine-the same as last time around (TIME, Dec. 25). The other seven major-league clubs, led by the Cardinals' Fred Saigh, seemed to have won the fight for a new commissioner. The poser was: Who? The owners have until 1952 to settle the problem. They handed the screening job to a committee, told the committee to "take all the time necessary...
...czar" in more than name. The most famous example was Chandler's year-long suspension of Leo Durocher just before opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday night game (as offensive to "religious people"), and the Chandler project (disowned by the owners) to hire Public Relations Expert Steve Hannagan for $50,000, plus $150,000 in expense money, to "publicize" baseball's golden jubilee next year...