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...bitter joke afterward: What better champion for the phoniest of baseball seasons than the Los Angeles Dodgers? Hooray for Hollywood. Former Dodger Pitcher Don Sutton used to keep a telegram (and his perspective) tacked on his locker, six MILLION BEST WISHES, it read; signed LEE AND FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS. Sutton loved to laugh and say: "Nice of their publicist to do it." One wall of the Dodger Stadium office of Tommy Lasorda, the manager who kisses and hugs his players like a game-show host, is a shrine to Frank Sinatra. What better place to hang this year...
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev greeted Jaruzelski's appointment with a cordial telegram urging him to use his "great prestige" to rally the Polish party against "counterrevolution." There was no indication that the Kremlin had imposed Jaruzelski on the Poles; indeed, it probably would have preferred Politburo Hard-Liner Stefan Olszowski. But the Soviets apparently found the general an acceptable replacement for Kania, in whom they had lost all confidence...
...Said Michael Sherman, director of stock research for the Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb investment banking firm: "The Granville predictions created a classic buying opportunity. Many people felt compelled to buy because they knew stocks were being sold for emotional reasons." Quipped Stock Analyst Larry Wachtel: "I sent Joe a telegram that read: 'Having wonderful time, wish you were here...
...persuade the Soviet Union not to intervene in Poland to seize control of the faltering government. Moscow, for its part, seemed to be taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the Polish liberalizations that it had tried, and failed, to discourage. After sending Kania a terse congratulatory telegram upon his reelection, omitting the customary expression of confidence, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev cabled somewhat warmer greetings to Warsaw's leaders as the Poles celebrated their national day last week. The message declared the Polish party "undoubtedly capable of rallying all the working people and stirring them to a resolute rebuff...
...founder and former editor of Ring magazine; after surgery for a stomach tumor; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Daniel covered baseball from 1909, the heyday of Ty Cobb, until the 1974 World Series, which he reported for the Sporting News, mostly for the now defunct New York World-Telegram and New York World-Telegram...