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Edward W. Wagner, professor of Korean Studies, said yesterday he did not think the enemies list meant a great deal, adding he was surprised to see such an unsophisticated document...
...baseball's pantheon, John Peter ("Honus") Wagner, the bowlegged shortstop of the Pittsburgh Pirates (1900-17), is a superstar's superstar. He was eight times National League batting champion, and among the first to be elected to the Hall of Fame. As a shortstop, he was unparalleled; as a hitter, formidable; and as a coach, respected. Yet today a growing number of savvy professionals value Wagner for an entirely different reason-the rarity of the 1910 baseball cards bearing his phiz...
...Wagner, it seems, disliked smoking cigarettes and threatened to sue the manufacturer of Sweet Caporal cigarettes, when it used his picture on one of their premium cards. Since only a few were printed before the company suspended production of his card, the estimated two dozen that are known to exist have become coveted investments. If they are in good condition they may sell for $4,000 apiece...
While the same number of cards is issued for each player, cards of superstars are naturally in greater demand. Moreover, many sets include one or two "stumpers"-cards that because of printing errors are rarer than the others. The Honus Wagner card is probably the greatest stumper of all tune, and along with two others forms "the Big Three." The second is the 1910 Sweet Caporal card of Philadelphia Athletics Pitcher Eddie Plank, whose printing plate broke during production, making the card a rarity currently worth $1,900. The third, worth $1,500, is the card of Cleveland Second Baseman...
...Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis, Isak Dinesen, Truman Capote, John O'Hara and W.H. Auden. Now, in this posthumous volume, Cerf tells what goes on behind the bookshelves. Using tapes of his interviews for Columbia's oral history program, along with his diaries and scrapbooks, his widow, Phyllis Cerf Wagner, and former Random House Editor Albert Erskine have compiled a breezy and vastly amusing memoir-identical, one suspects, to the one the gregarious panelist on TV's What's My Line? might have written himself...