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Time was when men brought up on ordinary, old-fashioned baseball sneered at the upstart as a sissy sport. No more. Everybody plays softball.* Churches, civic groups, industrial organizations and all the armed services sponsor teams that compete in hotly contested leagues. Softball has been taken up by neighborhood taverns, the choruses of Broadway shows, the Ku Klux Klan, the atomic scientists of Los Alamos. Some 25,000 teams work hard all summer for a shot at the end-of-the season series...
...start a run-nipping double play, and then got Outfielder Gino Cimoli to ground out on an inside fast ball to end the inning. When he finished his two-hit victory last week (final score: 2-0), the Oklahoma kid was the talk of the National League and the upstart St. Louis Cardinals were in first place in the wildest early-season pennant scramble in years...
...Amis in whom the quinine water has changed to straight quinine. Thomas Hinde (Happy As Larry) explores the Welfare State Bohemia with a hero who feels that cadging a livelihood is "more honest," and Peter Towry (It's Warm Inside) writes the comedy of carping domesticity. The upstart philistinism that molds and mars the entire group is succinctly stated by John Braine's hero when he says that everything is "simply a question of money...
Author Ellin Mackay Berlin (Lace Curtain, Land I Have Chosen) wrote this book as a kind of sentimental duty to the past. By the time the upstart Mackays had become aristocratic, she herself outraged her Roman Catholic family in 1926 by marrying Songwriter Irving Berlin, son of Russian Jewish immigrants. She notes with wonder that her grandmother was born in an East Side slum only a few blocks away from where, 50 years later, Irving Berlin spent his childhood. With just such a sense of place she moves competently from the mining disasters in the Comstock to the horrors...
...rubbing out. Now free on $25,000 bail while appealing a tax-evasion conviction (five years), Costello, a charmed-life anachronism from the Prohibition Era, could see signs that he had outlived his right to be known as "prime minister of the U.S. underworld." The obvious way for upstart mobsters to hasten the crumbling of Kingpin Costello's dark empire of crime and rackets would begin with the elimination of the Big Boss himself. Costello taxied last week from a quiet on-the-town evening to his apartment house on Manhattan's Central Park West. In the building...