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Brought up from the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs, Ernie hit .275 (including 19 homers) as a rookie last year, batted in 79 runs. Weighing only 170 Ibs., he depends on timing and strong wrist action to lift the ball. Said Cub Manager Stan Hack last week: "That boy's got no nerves. He's a real quiet, modest guy. After he hits a homer, he comes back to the dugout as if he done something wrong...
Pioneer epics dote on heroes who can tame the land but not themselves. In The Tree of Man, the primitive Australian back country tames, tempers and sorely tries a Job-like settler. Stan Parker is the kind of harassed hero O'Neill and Dreiser used to delight in-the simple, inarticulate man groping his way towards the meaning of life while fate trips him up with distressing regularity. And like O'Neill and Dreiser, Australian-born Author White (Happy Valley, The Aunt's Story) more often drags than carries the reader with him through Stan...
Music '55 (Tues. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Stan Kenton and orchestra, abetted by Gloria De Haven, the Four Freshmen, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Marie Knight...
...come by. Year-round, the youngsters let nothing, not even their school work, interfere with training. Every day finds them out in their sagging, stark black swim suits, ready to start a practice session by 7 a.m. And every morning, under the calm and skillful guidance of Army Pfc. Stan...
...varsity swimmer from the University of North Carolina, modest Stan Tinkham inherited the team in the spring of 1954, when he took over from a talented but terrible-tempered civilian named James Leonard Campbell. That April, when the squad left for Daytona, everyone predicted disaster. Tinkham brought home a team of winners...