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...mythic stature. The garrulous Casey Stengel summed up his contemporary in a lone sentence: "It was like he was superhuman." Others would say subhuman. On his most courteous afternoons, Cobb slid in, spikes high and sharpened to maim. He wrangled with teammates, two wives, five children and innumerable ticket holders. When a New York fan taunted him, Cobb climbed into the stands and stomped the offender. It was later pointed out that the stompee had been missing all of one hand and three fingers of the other. Cobb replied tenderly, "I don't care if he has no feet...
...even if they don't know you, even the women." Truer words were never spoken about these warmhearted citizens, except when it comes to football. For example, just that morning a Midland sports columnist had used his forum to accuse a genial visiting correspondent of "worming a ticket...
...U.S.S.R. is in favor of more consular exchanges and open to the idea of periodic summits, but civil aviation talks may flounder owing to a disagreement over ticket prices and the landing fees the Soviets are requesting...
...once worked as a busboy at an all-white club frequented by Virginia legislators. New Attorney General Mary Sue Terry became Virginia's first woman to be elected to statewide office. Paul G. Kirk, the Democratic national chairman, took the results as an omen: "The unified Virginia ticket," he said, "proved that diversity within the Democratic Party can once again be a strength...
After a brief hobnob with journalists at the British embassy, they headed upstairs to their cozy three-room suite to rest up for the gala White House dinner Saturday evening. The swanky soiree for only 79 guests, certainly the hottest ticket in town, was a mixture of glitz and ritz, power and talent. The guests included Actors Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck and John Travolta, Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (who was seated at Diana's right), Architect I.M. Pei, Explorer Jacques Cousteau, Artists Helen Frankenthaler and David Hockney, and Nancy's cat pack, Jerry Zipkin and Betsy Bloomingdale. The menu, in keeping...