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...replied in kind, and Adcock charged toward the mound. Gomez once more put his faith in his pitcher's arm. His aim was ornery and his control was only fair-this time he hit Adcock on the thigh. But Gomez did not wait for the call; he turned tail and scuttled for the clubhouse. For a few minutes both teams milled about the Giants' bench, unminding the organist's emergency rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner. Then the game went on (Giants 8, Braves 6). Big Joe Adcock, fined $100 for his part in the skirmish, offered...
...away in handy-sized packing crates. ¶ In Minneapolis the Institute of Arts had on view a 21 in. bronze Monkey and Her Baby, by 74-year-old Pablo Picasso. To make his ,lonkey, Picasso took a child's toy auto for a head, car spring for a tail and a machined iron sphere for a body, shaped in the rest with clay. The end product: a heavy-footed baboon shape that rates a guffaw, yet carries over an unabashed tribute to mammalian protectiveness and love that can be enjoyed long after the laughter has subsided...
...inches into the air. Wrote one survivor: "Late in the afternoon, a shark about four feet long struck at the raft and, going right over my shoulder, slid into the raft. It took a bite out of C. One of the men and myself caught the shark by the tail and pulled him out of the raft. C. became delirious and died about four hours later...
...chief investigator of a super-secret intelligence unit of the Chicago police dubbed Scotland Yard, Joe Morris had, since 1952, been painstakingly gathering data on Chicago gangsters and their political friends. His tactic: pick up a hoodlum, e.g., Sam ("Golf Bag") Hunt,* grill him, set him free, tail him. With the help of surveillances, wire taps and bugs, Morris filled five filing cabinets with intelligence on 600 "syndicate" mobsters, 8,000 lesser hoodlums, and a disturbing number of his fellow cops and assorted politicians...
Hats That Stay. The questionnaire turned up other criticisms. Overwhelmingly, the women reported that it was practically impossible to find the basic, simple black dress that "isn't too hot in New York and can be worn morning through evening." They wanted blouses with "plenty of tail" that won't pull out of skirts, cottons that need no ironing, "hats that stay put." They disdained frills and gewgaws in favor of "simple, good classic lines," "feminine but not frilly romantic clothes...