Word: sparkplugging
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...over the winter, the Giants took on new strength while their chief rivals sagged. Milwaukee's second baseman and sparkplug Red Schoendienst, recovering from tuberculosis, will be out of play all season, and the Braves looked unimpressive as they dropped 15 of their first 21 spring training exhibitions. Pittsburgh's second-place Pirates gave up power that they could ill afford to lose when they traded Slugger Frank Thomas to the Cincinnati Reds. In the winter trading, the Giants picked up two established starting pitchers: Jack Sanford, 29, who won 19 games for Philadelphia two years...
...Sparkplug and chairman of the four-day conference was young Manhattan Lawyer F. William Stringfellow, 30, a graduate of Harvard Law School ('56), who, after visiting 30 law schools during the past year, became convinced that faculty members are disturbed by the excessive pragmatism of U.S. legal education...
...second of the five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr., has spent about ten years in Government-most of them in little-publicized hard work. He was Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs (1944-45), Under Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1953-54), sparkplug of the Rockefeller Report, and is now adviser on reorganization to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy. Rockefeller is no professional politician, but he starts with one advantage that few politicians (except Millionaire Harriman) can boast: a name that is already a household word...
...batting champion and MVP are not corollary awards. The sparkplug value of a player cannot be evaluated by statistics, which are the sole arguments which Williams partisans muster. Mantle approached Williams in most batting departments, and beat...
Died. Martin T. Lacey, 75 (less one day), iron-jawed, dent-nosed sparkplug (since 1903) of the New York labor front, kingpin Teamsters union leader who fought the Beck-Hoffa-Dio racketeers for his New York Teamsters' Joint Council 16 presidency but lost it to Hoffa's pal, John J. O'Rourke, last January; of a heart attack in his sleep; in Washington Township...