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...find holes so effectively that he scored two touchdowns in a frenzied third quarter that buried Irish hopes (17-7). Last week against Indiana, Saimes, though nursing a painfully bruised right leg, bulled his way for one touchdown, intercepted a pass, and stormed up from the secondary to slam down Hoosier ball carriers as the Spartans won easily...
...unprecedented 2,596 homers had already been hit. The Yankees set a team record. San Francisco's Willie Mays hit four in one game. New York's John Blanchard managed four in four trips to the plate. Baltimore's Jim Gentile hit two grand-slam homers in two innings. "The old days of the squeeze play, the stolen base, the hit and run are gone," said Oriole Manager Paul Richards. "They'll never come back. Everybody knows that the singles hitter drives a Chevy-the home run hitter, a Cadillac...
...there are other courses at this pleasant hour, and some of them must even be mentioned. Eugene Rochow's only rival in masterful magic, the one, the only, the incomparable L.K. Nash bursts back from sabbatical in his all-new, slam-bang Chem count them 2. Avoid the first five rows of seats...
...Jackson scored musicals for MGM, finally quit over the limitations of the job. Jackson, now 42, was slowed up on the club circuit because, says a friend, using Hollywood's favorite word, he had "too much musical integrity." He was also inclined, when cocktail conversation annoyed him, to slam the keyboard and announce: "I can't insult that lovely tune." For a time he wavered between jazz and a classical career, but eventually made up his mind that he would rather "classicize jazz than jazzicize the classics." With him, it hardly makes any difference...
Into the Bin. One of the luckier Americans was TIME Havana Correspondent Jay Mallin, who got out last week. The Cuban G-2 arrested him the day after invasion, questioned him, and then inexplicably released him. At 10:30 that night he heard car doors slam in the street outside his apartment house, looked out and saw his janitor leading a squad of G-2 men into the building. Mallin ran up a flight of stairs and hid in a hallway storage bin. The G-2 men waited in the apartment; Mallin waited in the bin. At 5 a.m. Mallin...