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...difference between the tantrum-tossing Piersall of 1960 and today's tame Indian is crotchety, dry-witted Manager Jimmie Dykes, 64, who came to the Indians last year in a mid-season managerial swap that sent Joe Gordon to Detroit. Says Indian General Manager Gabe Paul: "You can't ever expect Pier-sail to be a Little Lord Fauntleroy. He has his moments. But with Dykes around, he's under control at all times...
Before I start my tantrum about the quality of Harvard course writing, let me first say that all the papers in the May issue of the Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences are thoroughly competent, if dull...
Reading all these learned and badly written papers in a sitting has brought on my tantrum, which is really just a simple case of grader's gout. Such is my curmudgeonly state, that if I see one more sentence of the "evaluating conceptologically valid methodologies in the light of historical analysis, on the one hand as it were, and on the other, in meshing frames of reference, so to speak" variety, then I shall take the name of Talcott Parsons in vain...
...emotional antics of the pair of challenging Italians, Orlando Sirola and Nicola Pietrangeli, who had knocked out the U.S. team. Then onto the court for Australia walked a pair of lefthanders who never weep and never giggle, shudder at the idea of throwing a racket or a tantrum. All Neale Fraser, 27, and Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 22, ever seem to do is win-and last week they defended the Davis Cup with a brand of tennis that has become indisputably the best in the amateur world...
Conceding that some money does change hands at supposedly amateur tournaments, Vice President Ed Turville of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association remarked dryly: "If a player wants to take money under the table, by his own act he is showing his dishonesty." The defection of the tantrum twins would almost surely impair U.S. Davis Cup prospects for two or three years to come, but Turville was clearly reflecting the considered opinion of many U.S. lovers of the game when he added: "I am pleased that they are turning professional...