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...coat of Republican respectability, has changed it for something like a blazer, as part of its program for a lighter, brighter paper. In addition, the Trib has stopped trying to match the Times in comprehensive news coverage. Trib Publisher Helen Rogers Reid and her two sons, Editor Whitelaw ("Whitey"), 41, and Vice President Ogden ("Brownie"), 29, are banking on selection rather than mass ("More news in less time"), and the drawing power of probably the best collection of columnists of any U.S. paper (Walter Lippmann, Joe and Stewart Alsop, Roscoe Drummond and David Lawrence for brains; Red Smith, John Crosby...
Only three years ago, substantially the same Giant team as today's started the season like bushers. A converted outfielder named Whitey Lockman was learning to play first base. On third, another converted outfielder, Henry Thompson, was booting oftener than a cavalryman's cobbler. Such seasoned pitchers as Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen were giving away runs as if they were CARE packages...
With Pete Harpel breaking the record for the hammer throw, the freshman track team also crushed Brown, 108 to 32. Harpel's toss of 157' 4" broke Whitey Black's 153' 7 1/4" made...
...while losing six last season, had balked at a salary cut, and the Yankees, said General Manager George Weiss, were fed up with "independently wealthy men, who, through the winning of five pennants and world championships, have become too complacent." Within four days, Holdouts Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford agreed to sign their Yankee contracts...
...finally took the pledge, too, though it did not seem to lessen his zest for fun or the game he loved. In recent years he directed the New York Journal-American's sandlot-baseball program. Among his alumni: Yankee Pitcher Whitey Ford, Brooklyn Pitcher Billy Loes. Last week, as baseball writers were sealing their ballots for elections to the game's Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Rabbit Maranville, among the leading candidates, died of a heart attack at 61 in his New York City home. There were many who fondly remembered the Rabbit's quick chuckle...