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...Pirates, loaded with pitching talent, will attempt to avenge a four-game sweep by the famous Yanks of 1927--the last time the two teams met in a World Series and the last time Pittsburgh won a National League pennant. Casey Stengel's Yanks rule a 13-10 favorite, but Cambridge's breakfast table daily--along with the Pittsburgh press--will stick with the underdog just...
...York Yankees' flinty Manager Casey Stengel got rained out of a big salute planned in Yankee Stadium for his 70th birthday. So he retired to the catacombs of Yankee Stadium for a slice of birthday cake and a stroll down memory lane instead, fondly remembering the day in the 1920s when he and some other big leaguers met Britain's King George V. Each player, upon being introduced to His Highness, was told to say: "I'm honored." The first few players carried off their lines perfectly. But not brash Casey Stengel. "When the King gets...
Relinquishing his omniscience for just a few seconds, Casey Stengel said: "God knows, I don't know what's wrong with Mickey Mantle...
...victims of winter colds. (The fact that two of them, Ramon Vinay and Karl Liebl, had been panned by critics after earlier appearances might have also affected their health.) Rather than cancel a sold-out performance, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing resorted to a technique normally used by Casey Stengel and the New York Yankees, sent in each tenor for a single act. "Fortunately," added Bing, "there are only three acts...
Humphries' football end, now TIME'S Associate Editor Richard Seamon, wrote this week's cover story on Actress Anne Bancroft, has written at least 14 other covers on subjects as dissimilar as Air Force Space Physician John Paul Stapp (MEDICINE, Sept. 12, 1955), Yankee Orator Casey Stengel (SPORT, Oct. 3, 1955), and TV's glib-jib Private Eyes (Snow BUSINESS, Oct. 26). On TIME since 1951, he has contributed to almost every section of the magazine, handled the Sport section for three years (1955-58), and helped inaugurate the Show Business section with a cover story...