Word: scrappers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nobody ever got further with less talent," Eddie Stanky has said of his eleven-year playing career in the majors-during which he batted only .268 but played in three World Series and earned a well-deserved reputation as the meanest, toughest, loudest scrapper in the business. "The Brat" was an expert at collecting bases on balls, breaking up double plays, and heckling and generally enraging opponents. Now 49 and in his second year as manager of the Chicago White Sox, who last week were leading the American League by 4½ games, Stanky insists that he is as smooth...
...Yorty is in many ways the personification of the city he heads. He is a maverick in a land of mavericks, a scrapper who is part political opportunist and part high-minded booster. Like a majority of adult Angelenos, he comes from "back East"-anywhere east of the Sierras. He is defensive about California's virtues and suspicious of condescending Easterners. Like Los Angeles itself, which has long put up with the patronizing attitude of northern neighbor San Francisco, he seems to take pleasure in playing the underdog even when he knows that he is top dog. During...
...Clive Klleff dropped the first set to Sven Karlen before rallying 4-6, 6-4, 6-1. Dartmouth's Larry Himes, a dog-fighter with a natural backhand that goes straight up in the air, whipped Richie Friedman 6-0 in the first set. Friedman, a bit of a scrapper himself, ran out the last two sets, 6-2, 8-6, for Harvard's fourth win. Brian Davis (6) edged Roger Gutner...
Serpentine Suavity. Capote, who despite his effeminate manner can be a tough scrapper, struck back immediately. "I don't believe in artists replying to criticism," he wrote to the Observer, "and I have never done so myself, for I think it shows lack of pride and really serves small purpose. But this bullyboy chicanery concocted by Tynan is one over the odds." Capote emphatically denied that he could have done anything more to save his "pitiful friends." A competent psychiatrist had offered his testimony, and the Kansas court was not likely to be impressed with any more medical...
Patchwork Scrapper. So popular were Calder's mobiles that manufacturers have since imitated them in mass production. Calder himself has clung to few mechanical tools, prefers rivets instead of welding, paints his mobiles with brushes instead of spraying them. Sprung from the modern esthetic that sees wisdom in childhood, his work is a comment on, rather than patent approval of, the Machine Age. For the fun of it, Calder makes his own family kitchenware-ladles, forks, spoons-using leftover scrap metal; he snips out toys for his grandchildren and jewelry for his wife. He is, in effect, a sophisticated...