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...itself." Though the motto worked well for Rickey, Veeck does not agree with it. Says he: "You've always got to be thinking about fans who wish they had gone to the circus. Baseball fans are like anyone else. If you buy breakfast food and it tastes like sawdust, you don't buy any more. That's what's been going on here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dust-Up in St. Louis | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...band of University maintenance men who annually assemble the speakers platform took time out yesterday to make their traditional predictions of the famous figures who will receive honorary degrees at Harvard's 800th commencement. But the uncomfortable midday heat apparently made the sawdust sooth-sayers more waggish than usual as 46 percent of those polled selected gambler Frank Costello as their first commencement choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Costello Named Degree Recipient by Carpenters | 6/2/1951 | See Source »

...Holmes, Pears' Cyclopædia, the 1881 volume of the Strand magazine, Wild Wales and Two Years Before the Mast. He was much happier browsing through this library than he was lathering the "filthy faces [of] nasty old men" in a slum barbershop (his first job) or eating "sawdust and chips" at "the wrong end of a planing machine" (his second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: View from the Gutter | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...fellow magicians insistently preached: that no "spirit manifestation" existed that they could not duplicate by plain trickery. They showed how clammy "spirit hands" (that brushed the brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted out of paraffin or simply from "a kid glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate was that of a "baby" which, in a dim light, a famous woman medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Avocation in Ectopiffle | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...Sleep. The day was drizzly, so wet that groundkeepers at the Polo Grounds had to shovel sawdust around the mound to give Maglie some solid footing. He struggled with a wet baseball for six innings trying to keep his sweeping curve under control. He succeeded well enough: not a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, including Slugger Ralph Kiner, had managed to cross the plate. Maglie had little more than an inning to go to break the record set by Hubbell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out of the Bullpen | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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