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...enduring miracle is Stan Musial, who at 42 is at last about to retire. His .257 batting average this year is well below his .333 lifetime mark. But last week in eleven trips to the plate, he belted a homer, a double and five singles, added a sacrifice fly and drove in five runs. Better still, the homer came after he sat up all night awaiting the birth of his first grandchild...
...Louis Cardinals Outfielder Stan Musial announced with a catch in his voice that he will retire at season's end, thus closing one of the greatest careers in baseball. In 22 seasons, all with the Cards, Stan the Man has broken or tied 56 records, setting a National League high of 3,610 hits, a major-league high of 1,371 extra base hits. He has reached the point where every time he gets a hit, or even appears in a game, he adds to some record or other. Batting only .256 this season, 77 points below his lifetime...
Guests: Joan Sutherland, Delia Reese and Stan Kenton...
...film has its funny moments, some of them intentional. A small boy, forced to play an angel in a Christmas pageant, grimly determines to make the best of a bad situation-on top of his halo he wears a Stan Musial cap. But most of the film is intolerable Technicolored tarradiddle, absolutely the worst movie ever directed by the illustrious John Ford (The Informer, Stagecoach). Watching him make such stuff is like watching Escoffier make mudpies...
...goofy, spoofy radio commercials of Stan Freberg have moved a lot of Chun King Chinese food and Contadina tomato paste ("Eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can?") into the stomachs of consumers, and now Stan is going to try to move some of the consumers into church. His newest client: the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Says Satirist Freberg, who earns about $500,000 a year by gently kidding his employers' products: "They wanted me to try to sell Christianity, actually, and I said I thought we would reach more people if we narrowed it down...