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...whatever the job, the right man usually was a catcher-one of a remarkable Yankee trio whose versatility, both at bat and in the field, is unmatched in baseball history. In a season when both major leagues can boast fewer than half a dozen topflight catchers, the three best belong to the Yankees: ·YOGI BERRA. At 36 the oldest of the Yankee catchers, stumpy (5 ft. 8 in., 191 Ibs.), durable Yogi Berra is nearing the end of his 19-year baseball career. No catcher in history has hit so many home runs (337); no ballplayer has played...
...When Lenore was two," recalls her mother, "she carried a toy rifle around with her. She'd sprawl out on the living room floor, and people would laugh and say, 'Look at that. Perfect prone position.' " Her father, who died when Lenore was eleven, was a topflight competitive marksman; her mother has been firing smallbore rifles for 24 years, last year won the National Women's Any Sight Championship. Stepfather Marvin Driver is a crack pistol shot and longtime director of the National Rifle Association. Lenore's kid sister Candy...
...Valedictorian Baxter headed for Wall Street riches. A brush with TB soon turned him to teaching; but the class prophecy still came true. At 44, Historian Baxter became the youngest of Williams' ten presidents. This month, when he retired at 68, Phinney Baxter was the dean of topflight New England college presidents, and one of the most respected in the U.S. He was a throwback to the old breed: the college president who pursued not only cash but also scholarship and public service...
...Angeles, dyspeptic eaters bemoan the omission of La Scala, one of the finest Italian restaurants on the West Coast, and the Cock 'n Bull, whose Sunday hunt breakfast alone is worth a constellation. Many topflight restaurants in raffish neighborhoods lose points to stuffier places in more conventional surroundings. Chasen's rates its four stars more for its pressagentry than its food. On the other hand, the guide has also dug up many outstanding out-of-the-way spots, including Casa la Golondrina in Los Angeles, Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley, and Bimbo's 365 Theatre...
Shattered Authority. Even before the Cuban disaster, the main difficulty in finding a topflight man for the Latin American job was the fact that all real authority was tightly held by Berle and his task force. Since then, so many men have had a hand in policy that no one really has responsibility. Not counting the investigating teams looking into the Cuba failure itself, and Kennedy's proposal to send U.N. Ambassador Stevenson on a fence-mending swing around South America, at least four top-level men are handling various facets of inter-American affairs...