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...from lower owl to upper sparrow. Her voice sounds all of 20 years old. Her manner, for all her speed, is soothing. Just when you think she might be turning into Bonnie Baker, however, she kicks the lid off and begins to scat: "Scoodee-oo-da-do-dee-uba-ty-ty...
...Cincinnati. He succeeds to an office once held by Actor Harold Lloyd, assumes leadership of more than three-quarters of a million men, currently including Chief Justice Earl Warren, former President Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey, Irving Berlin, and, quite naturally, Senator Barry Goldwater. Past members include Ty Cobb and Franklin D. Roosevelt; Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper and Virgil Grissom are new recruits. Omar Brock neither smokes nor (unlike his Persian namesake) drinks, has no superstitions. "You learn to live and you learn to die," he says...
...Cleveland Pitcher Mudcat Grant. "Tony say, 'Who is this Mudcat? Who is Mudcat?' I tell him, 'Why, you just got two hits off him.' Tony just smile. He don't know Mudcat. He don't know Bob Feller. He don't know Ty Cobb. He don't know nothing. He just smile and show that gold tooth...
Died. Sir Jack Hobbs, 81, the Ty Cobb of British cricket, who almost singlehanded won the game's symbolic "Ashes" for Britain in 1926 after 14 straight years of galling Australian supremacy, in 1953 was awarded professional cricket's first knighthood, an honor that forever raised the status of professional players, until then required to address their amateur brethren as "Sir"; after a long illness; in Hove, Sussex...
...omnipresent grin. There is the hard-nosed commander who wants to see action, after spending the last war "hooked up at a pier in Bayonne, N. J.;" the funny cook, the wisecracking old butler, the boobish aide, the guy who knows he's going to get killed, and does. Ty Hardin, as Kennedy's second in command, wears a ridiculous blond beard, but mumbles well. And he's terrific at diving into foxholes. James Gregory, as Commander Ritchie, who finally shoots down a Japanese plane, is out-smirked only by Robertson...