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...Durocher's New York Giants and Billy Southworth's Boston Braves met to answer the No. 1 hotstove question of the winter: Who got the best of December's big Giants-Braves trade (TIME, Dec. 26)? Boston won two straight, with a Durocher castoff, Outfielder Sid Gordon, winning the second game almost singlehanded with two homers, one with the bases full...
...third midfielder Ripper Lynch's case of the flu is no better today, Bob Baldwin will start in his place. Munro also expects to alternate sophomore goalie Dick Thomas with Sid Clarke...
With hardly any waste motion behind the scenes, Liebman gets plenty of movement on the TV screen. In 27-year-old Sid Caesar he has a TV-raised multi-dimensional comedian who is equally convincing as a slot machine, a head-lolling infant, a British general or a Freudian psychiatrist just off the plane from Vienna. Caesar's comedy partner is pint-sized Imogene Coca ("No one knows how old she is"), who can switch from a prim Victorian to a stripteaser to a Wagnerian Valkyrie without missing a nuance or a laugh...
Other sophomores slated for heavy duty on the spring trip are attackman Pete Brook, defenseman Bill Spence and Jay Byrne, Goalie Bob Thomas is still jockeying with veteran Sid Clark for the starting cage slot...
...happy during spring training, which is a notably optimistic time of year anyhow. After one of the largest rebuilding jobs in major-league history (TIME, Dec. 26), Billy finally had an outfield. He had given up his keystone combination of Alvin Dark and Eddie Stanky to get Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall from the New York Giants along with Infielder Buddy Kerr and Pitcher Sam Webb. On top of that, his bosses, Boston building contractors, had shoveled out $100,000 and three players to get fleet-footed Rookie Sam Jethroe from Brooklyn's canny Branch Rickey...