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...usually substitution at left halfback, went in at center forward and groped the Yearlings' first goal on a center from right wing Steve Joyee in 25 seconds of the second period. Joyee three minutes later, put in a lour, high Lick from 60 feet out for the second sere...
Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, a man who got to fame in the sere and yellow leaf, was naturally jubilant about winning the World Series, but, at 59, he was a little undecided about his future. After the last game in his team's clean sweep, Casey surprised sportwriters by saying, "I don't know whether I'm coming back next year ... it will depend upon my health." Last week Stengel got just what the doctor ordered: a two-year contract making him the highest-paid manager in baseball history. True to a modern baseball custom much favored...
...Sere & Yellow. In Iona, Fla., Richard Thompson, 90, calmly threw away his 40-year-old false teeth because they were getting in the way of four new molars just coming through...
...disappeared behind a grey overcast, and a great stillness fell over the eastern Colorado plains. After that a freezing wind rose, banged barn doors and snatched at the smoke from lonely ranch houses. It grew dark, and salt-like snow began hissing across leagues of sere buffalo grass. Then, for 48 hours, a blizzard-the worst in 33 years-moaned down out of Wyoming with nothing to stop it but fence posts and cottonwood trees...
...sere valley below, waves of sulphur rolled out every six hours, as a blast furnace belched. Black smoke poured from the stacks. A 300-ft.-high gas tank (big enough to supply Rio's daily gas consumption ten times over) loomed up by the long sheds that make up the rolling mill...