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...game was never more than a lopside rout. Harvard scored three runs in the first and three in the second, knocking Bruin ace Steve Kadison out of the box. Brown sent a parade of five pitchers to the mound, but none was able to temper the Crimson's red-hot hitting...
...shifts, day and night. I remember pulling a cart-load of scrap iron from a railway siding to the school (probably about ten miles), catching a few hours of sleep on a desk, and then taking my turn at the furnaces. The slogan then was "in the furnace we temper steel, outside we temper people...
Vainly, Jimmy tried to find an issue -any issue-to hang his campaign on. He called Yorty a stooge of Democrat Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, the controversial California assembly speaker. He attacked Yorty's membership in a segregated private club, endlessly criticized Yorty for having a bad temper...
...Yorty is certainly irascible, but he held his temper throughout the campaign, seemed almost cool in contrast to Jimmy. He pointed to the fact that he had cut city taxes, streamlined city government and improved garbage pickups. He outpolled Roosevelt 392,775 to 247,313, picked up 57.9% of the vote to Jimmy's 36.5%, with the rest going to six nonentities on the ballot...
...never wanted to be a fighter," he says. "I wanted to be a baseball player. This is a funny business. The guy you're hitting hasn't done anything to you, but you have to hit him anyway." Three years ago, Griffith lost his temper in the ring-when Benny Paret noted Emile's tight pants and his singsong Virgin Islands speech and questioned his masculinity. Paret died of brain injuries in that fight, and Griffith has brooded ever since over the massacre. "I try to think it was fate," he says. "I try real hard...