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...sidelines for only one day last July (during a game with the Pirates that was suspended before completion), Cardinal Stan Musial snapped his National League record of consecutive games played at 862. Benched once more after another month of steady play, Stan managed to boost his record to 895 by going in as a pinch runner in the playoff of the suspended game...
...West, The Devil's Brother, Blockheads) ; of the effects of a paralytic stroke he had in September, 1956; in North Hollywood. Georgia-born, bulbous Ollie sang on showboats while studying law, eventually wended his way via vaudeville villainry to Hollywood where he met (1919) skinny, sad-eyed Stan Laurel, onetime understudy to Charlie Chaplin. Two of America's few genuinely creative comedians, interested more, as Hardy once said, in "human appeal" than in "straight clownish antics," they teamed up in 1927, and as bumblingly chivalrous misfits strove ineffectually to solve hopeless problems (e.g., while struggling...
...Stan Musial is tired," said St. Louis Manager Fred Hutchinson before a game with the Giants. Musial agreed. But he played anyway, hit two home runs and two singles as the Cards won, 8-0, and pushed his lifetime total of extra-base hits to 1,140. Only Lou Gehrig (1,190) and Babe Ruth (1,356) have hit more...
Fred Allen, Henry Morgan, Bob and Ray -or a lesser-known funnyman named Stan Freberg...
Though braver than TV, radio still intends to stay friends with convention. In putting on last week's opening Stan Freberg Show (Sun. 7:30-8 p.m., CBS Radio), network executives eased their hypertension by scissoring out topical references to the Gaza Strip (it might offend Arabs and Zionists) and a simulated H-bomb explosion over a fictionalized Las Vegas (it might offend the State Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, the governor of Nevada, or somebody's aunt in Iowa). "Now I know what killed Fred Allen!" Stan Freberg cried, and complained of "panicky network people and panicky...