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Carlton Willey, a 21-game winner for Wichita last year, overcame a lack of confidence in his curve through the efforts of Geraghty and Wichita Pitching Coach Ted Wilks. Righthander Willey was made to throw curves in tight situations. His catcher would insist on the curve, even after Willey shook off the signal. Result: 27-year-old Willey developed the sharp-breaking stuff he needed to become a starter. He went up to the Braves in June, has pitched three shutouts, won eight, lost three. Last week he whipped Philadelphia twice. 14-3 and io. Willey...
...this year (the others: Detroit's Jack Tighe, Cleveland's Bobby Bragan, Philadelphia's Mayo Smith). Best bet to succeed him: fiery, onetime Big-League Infielder (Cubs, Dodgers, Braves, Giants, Cardinals) and Manager (Cardinals) Eddie Stanky. ¶ Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn, winner of the 1958 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, runner-up in the Belmont Stakes even though he fractured a sesamoid bone during the race, was judged incapable of carrying assigned racing weights despite successful corrective surgery, will be retired to stud in Lexington, Ky. Unplaced in his only race of 1957, the stylish colt...
Died. Frederic Joliot-Curie, 58, atomic physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1935, member of the French Communist Party's Central Committee, winner of a Stalin Peace Prize in 1950; following surgery for an internal hemorrhage; in Paris. Marrying Irene Curie, daughter of Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie Curie, Frederic Joliot added their name to his own. With his physicist wife, who died of leukemia in 1956, he won the Nobel for discovering that radioactivity could be produced in the laboratory in elements which were not naturally radioactive. This first opened the possibility of widespread use of radioactivity...
Ellington ran as "an old-fashioned segregationist" with Clement's support, promised to close any integrated schools in case of violence. In a four-man, winner-take-all primary, Ellington's band snatched a last-minute victory from Memphis' Gore-like Reform Mayor Edmund Orgill, after rednecks blanketed rural West Tennessee with pictures of Orgill talking with Negro "friends during N.A.A.C.P. organizational meeting" (actually, he was talking to a nonpartisan civic-improvement group). Additional point for sign readers to note: victorious Segregationist Ellington and more rabid Candidate Andrew T. Taylor between them rolled...
Kansas' former State Democratic Chairman, Marvin A. ("Mike") Harder, 36, professor of political science at the Municipal University of Wichita, last week lost his own precinct committeeman's seat to Donald E. Anderson, 23. Winner Anderson's oddest qualification: he earned his political science degree last June after racking up a high grade in the political parties course taught by Professor Harder...