Word: stan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admit that I'm an avid Cardinal fan and that Stan Musial is my favorite player, but even if all that weren't true, I'd still think Ernest Hamlin Baker's Sept. 5 cover one of the cutest and cleverest I have ever seen...
...dinner progressed to Turkish coffee and pears, the conversation switched to the movies. "American film industry is very fine," Tito remarked, "but sometimes we find the films a little foolish." I asked him about his favorite films and he beamed: "Cowboy films and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy." I asked him if he liked Charlie Chaplin. "Modern Times," said Tito, imitating the scene where Chaplin goes berserk and runs around twitching two wrenches. "He has made several since that one," I said. "In one he imitates Hitler." "You mean The Great Dictator?" inquired Tito blandly...
...Stan already has his own business. As new co-owner of Stan Musial's & Biggie's Steak House in St. Louis, he strolls among the restaurant's potted palms every evening that he is free, smiling shyly at his guests. Even if the restaurant business should fail, he could always go back and become lord mayor of Donora, where special scoreboards keep the home-town faithful posted on every hit Stan Musial makes every...
...Wrong." The home-towners aren't the only ones who keep solicitous tabs on Musial. Two weeks ago in Chicago, Third Baseman Tom Glaviano of the Cardinals said to Stan at breakfast: "I prayed for you last night. I got down on my knees and prayed." Impressed, Musial said he didn't realize Glaviano thought that much of him. "Don't get me wrong," explained Glaviano, "I was thinking what I could do with all that World Series dough...
With September's 30 days looming ahead, Stan Musial cannot afford to let his big bat cool off. Although the Cardinals have the best of the schedule (they begin a long home stand while Brooklyn embarks on a perilous western trip), they could very easily blow the pennant if Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion's ailing sacroiliac doesn't behave. Solid, knowledgeable Marty Marion is the steady man who holds the Cardinal infield together...