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...YANKEES: Of Casey Stengel's five straight champions, this squad won the most games and defeated an excellent Brooklyn team in the World Series. But look around the infield: Joe Collins at first, Billy Martin at second, Phil Rizzuto at short and Gil McDougald at third. Good players all, and not one of them would have started for this year's Yankees. Mickey Mantle had yet to hit 25 home runs in a season or drive in 100. And even the excellent starting pitchers of '53 don't match up against the six men who made up the fathoms-deep...
Asked a few months ago about the challenge of keeping ABC the top-ranked network in TV news, Roone Arledge reached for an example from his old days in sports. "One of my heroes was Casey Stengel," he said. "He used to rebuild while still winning pennants...
...result is a fascinating and somewhat chilling tale, produced in extraordinary collaboration by two of our savviest political analysts, senior writer Richard Stengel and senior correspondent Eric Pooley. "With Rick and Eric, you know you're going to get the story behind the story," says senior editor Priscilla Painton, who along with assistant managing editor Steve Koepp oversaw our election-issue package. "Eric burrows into a story and doesn't come back until he has every detail. Rick never loses sight of the big picture...
...unique possession of absolutely foolproof information about the results of the 1996 election. I have access to an infallible campaign crystal ball that has been tried, tested and proved right over and over again. Ladies and gentlemen, meet my father, my own vox pop, Robert B. Stengel, 75, a man who has voted in every presidential election since 1944 and has never once voted for a losing candidate. Not once. Ever...
...here's the poll result you've been waiting for--and it's free, at least until we open Stengel & Son, Pollsters Inc. The survey was conducted by telephone on Nov. 2 among one adult registered American voter, age 18 or older. The margin of error is plus or minus 0%. So, Bob Dole? "You know I like Bob Dole," my father says. "I think I like him better in the Senate than as a presidential candidate." Perot? "Too nutty." Clinton? "He's talking about education--that's the only way to make this country great." Dad, if the election...