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...last game of the 1951 World Series, against the New York Giants. Bauer had put the Yankees ahead with a bases-loaded triple. But the Giants rallied in the ninth inning. Two men were on, two were out, and the score was 4-3 when the Giants sent up Sal Yvars as a pinch hitter. Yvars blooped a sinking liner into rightfield. The sensible thing would have been to play it on one hop, let the tying run score, and hold the other base runner. A misplay could mean the ball game. Rushing in, Bauer lunged, stumbled, fell...
...obit that black July 4, 1914, when the Harvard junior varsity became the first American crew to win the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley. But the Empire survived, and so did the eight stout oarsmen, captained by a wiry Yankee who became Massachusetts Senator Leverett Sal ton stall, 72. And back to Henley they all went to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a row on the Thames and to donate a new Grand Challenge Cup to replace the leaky 125-year-old original. For Salty, it was enough just to be back, sipping champagne with strawberries and watching the English...
Lucretia Engle, wife of popular incumbent Democratic Senator Clair Engle, who was forced to withdraw from the primary after his second brain operation since August, came out for Sal inger. And Jackie Kennedy said: "President Kennedy valued his advice and counsel on all major matters." Salinger's past association as press secretary to Jack Kennedy clearly was his best issue. He constantly recalled the crises through which he had gone with the late President. In the final hours of the campaign, Pierre's people mailed 4,000,000 postcards, each bearing a blue-bordered photo of Kennedy...
...STEVENSON-Feigen-Herbert, 24 East 81st. Eyebrows will go up from Manhattan to Idabel, Okla. (the artist's home town) at his billboard-size The New Adam in the buff. Also on display are 17 other samples of Stevenson's exquisite gigantism, including The Right Eye of Sal Mineo with lashes as long as shoestrings. Through...
...philosopher, physician, and interpreter of the Jewish Law. Of him it was said: "From Moses to Moses there is none like unto Moses." He was born in the Spanish city of Cordova, but Moslem persecution drove his family to Morocco, Palestine, and finally to Egypt, where the Sultan Sal ad in provided refuge for Jews who were persecuted by other Islamic regimes...