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...necked and broad-backed, he leaned his 195 Ibs. into high, hard fastballs and hit drives that were things of wonder. At first, when he was a rookie training in Phoenix, Ariz., no one believed it. The thin atmosphere, they said, made the ball carry farther. Yankee Manager Casey Stengel had one look and roared: "Stratmosphere my eye! This kid doesn't need help. He hits the ball over buildings...
...opinions," snapped Bing. "If critics were acrobats, they would all long ago be dead." ∙∙∙ Ill lay: German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, 55, in Bonn with an attack of pleurisy that caused him to cancel last week's scheduled trip to Asia; baseball's Casey Stengel, 77, recovering in Glendale, Calif, from major surgery for a perforated peptic ulcer; Lawyer Percy Foreman, 66, in Houston with a case of pneumonia that could prevent him from preparing the defense of James Earl Ray in time for the March 3 trial opening; Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 73, resting...
...society of the future?"), the Daley defense was produced by Henry Ushijima, a California-born filmmaker who for five years has been paid by Chicago to turn out short documentaries celebrating the city. Actually, "Trees" was a surprisingly artful whitewash. In his handling of English, Daley is the Casey Stengel of American politics; he was wise enough to limit his physical participation in the film to two brief appearances. Ushijima waded through miles of television footage made during the convention week and spliced to gether scenes of New Leftist gatherings, of a police commander exhibiting the demonstrators' array...
ROMP!! (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). A lighthearted leap through the where-it's-at world of the young, guided by Michele Lee and Ryan O'Neal, with not-so-young Guests Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Allen, Jimmy Durante, Liberace and Casey Stengel...
There were all sorts of ways to get into print. Eddie ("the Brat") Stanky, manager of the Chicago White Sox, did it by trading insults with Casey ("the Professor") Stengel. Stanky was plumping for a new rule that would permit the same pinch hitter to appear more than once in a game; Stengel called the proposal "a farce," and Stanky retorted: "I don't make rules for farces, no matter what any 75-year-old expert says." Stengel...