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Though the Orioles were not wanting for heroes, they agreed to a man that Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. was the spark that ignited their attack-just as he has for most of his seasons at Baltimore. Son of a Little Rock fireman, Brooks was a star quarterback in high school who selected baseball over football and, ironically, the Orioles over the Reds, the one other team that was negotiating for him. Signed for a paltry $4,000 at 18, he was so impressive that Umpire Ed Burley remarked after one game: "Robinson plays third like he came down from...
...DRIVER'S SEAT by Muriel Spark. 117 pages. Knopf...
...Muriel Spark's tenth novel is a portrait of insanity nearly as stark as madness itself. The heroine is Lise, a 34-year-old spinster who has worked in the same office in a North European city for 16 years. Having bought herself an ugly traveling outfit, she sets out for an unnamed southland ostensibly for a vacation, but really to find someone willing to kill...
PRODUCTION will creep up from this year's lows, but sluggishly. There is nothing in sight now to spark any major surge. Consumers have been saving an abnormally high 8% of their income...
Envy of His Fellows. In his heyday, 1952 to 1964, Fleisher had a mastery of the classic and romantic repertory that made him the envy of fellow pianists. No pianist can overwhelm an audience at every performance, but more nights than not, a rare spark seemed to pass between Fleisher and his listeners. It was not the kind of spark that stemmed from mere dramatics or showmanship. What he had was the kind of flame that was ignited by rubbing the smallest phrase just so, and then building from there. "It was like making a happening," he recalls. "When...