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Wild Man. Duren himself has been accused of deliberately throwing at batters and purposely firing wild warmup pitches to discourage batters from digging in at the plate. Duren denies both charges, explains: "The mound on the field is different-higher-than the warmup slab in the bullpen. I believe in getting adjusted to it by throwing as hard as I can, and sometimes it goes wild." The record shows that the brown-eyed fastballer is no scatter-arm pitcher. He has walked only 24 batters this season, hit only two. Says Detroit's Kaline: "Maybe he was wild once...
...undergraduate, Irish-born Ron Delany led the Wildcats to the I.C.4-A team title by lowering his own meet record for the mile from 4:08.4 to 4:07.8, and winning the 880-yd. run, just 1¼ hr. later, with a fast 1 :50. It was all just a warmup for next week's meeting at Compton, Calif, with Aussie Herb Elliott, who got ready himself by winning the California Relays mile...
First, as a kind of warmup, on rabble-rousers' charges that the U.S. was plotting to turn Algeria over to the rebel F.L.N.,* crowds broke down the doors of the USIA offices on Rue Michelet and scattered books and periodicals in the street. Then, their ranks grown to 30,000, they jammed the main square for a ceremonial wreath-laying at the war memorial. General Raoul Salan, once commander in Indo-China and now commander in chief of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria, and tall, leathery General Jacques Massu, the paratroop commander, drove...
...technical equipment is superb. The enormous hands cover a twelve-note span. He has a dazzling warmup technique of playing swift scales in octaves and tenths with his hands crossed, a trick that he says does wonders to develop the left hand. When a friend told him about big-handed Soviet Pianist Richter's trick of playing tenths and simultaneously playing thirds between thumb and forefinger, Van immediately duplicated it, commented, "Aw, that's not hard." He plays Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto with the cadenza that the pianist-composer rewrote for his own performances because...
Bachelor Athlete. For Hartack, getting the mostest out of a horse starts with the warmup jog to the starting gate. He seems to examine his mount with the seat of his pants and the toes of his boots. "If a horse has a bad leg I change the stride in the warmup so's the horse will put his weight on both legs. Even if the leg hurts, you can't pity him and let him favor it. A horse's ears give you a lot of tips. If they're pinned back on his head, something's bothering...