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...neighborhood mothers hold up as a model to their own recalcitrant youngsters. He was a Roman Catholic altar boy and a newspaper delivery boy, a pitcher on his parochial school's baseball team and manager of its football team. At twelve years and three months, he became an Eagle Scout, one of the youngest on record. To all outward appearances, the family in which he grew up in Lake Worth, Fla.?including two younger brothers besides his mother and father, a moderately successful plumbing contractor?was a typical American family. Charlie joined the Marines in 1959 when...
...remains out from under this twelve feet of cold concrete if you have to quarry me out." So, reasoned his grandson, would William F. Cody have reacted to his final resting place on Lookout Mountain outside Denver. Cody, Wyo., diehards have never succeeded in rustling the U.S. cavalry scout's body out from under all that concrete thoughtfully poured by Colorado officials,* but this summer they have managed to bring the feud to something like a draw with an authentic re-creation of the Old West featuring "Buffalo Bill's" own collection of Western painting...
...wife. Kidnaped once by Apaches, she yearns to go back to the tribe because her husband (Dennis Weaver) doesn't think any decent woman should have lived through the ordeal, much less have borne a son to an Indian chieftain. Bibi is de fended by a trail scout (James Garner), who is determined to find the marshal who slew and scalped his Comanche wife. Broncobuster Sidney Poitier and Scottish Cavalryman Bill Travers pointedly underplay the long thought that a man's color or accent is no measure of his worth...
...short, the Giants have not taught Juan a thing-except how to hide the ball in his glove during his windup. "I first saw Juan at the age of 19. And he looked like a ten-year pro even then," says Carl Hubbell, San Francisco's head scout and once a pretty fair pitcher himself. Giants Owner Horace Stoneham was so impressed when he first saw Marichal throw that all he could think of to say was: "Where did you learn all about pitching...
Once again, there was no place to go but up, so up Juan went to Tacoma, Wash., in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. In May 1960, a San Francisco scout visited Tacoma, gave Juan a hard look and filed a report that takes its place among baseball's famous last words. "Potential major-league material," it read. "Should make the parent club in two years...