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...himself there was nothing to the Yankee myth. He would beat them in a couple of games during spring training just to prove it. In one game he used five pitchers, three of them in one inning. In the old days, Marse Joe was famed for his reluctance to yank out pitchers in spring exhibitions. Even so, the Yankees walloped his Red Sox two for one, and pulled into Sarasota last week chestier than ever. McCarthy had to win this...
...after their discharge from the Army in 1945. They drink too much, stage noisy parties and most of the women they know wear round heels. Only Ted is a combat veteran. Lew, a public relations officer, and Peter, a radio scripter, fought the war with typewriters (Miller was a Yank editor). Ted, an unstable and unhappy rich kid, commits suicide; Lew gets a dose of anti-Semitism from the girl he loves and goes home to California; Peter can get any woman into bed but the one he cares for, hates his job on a newsmagazine (Miller once worked eight...
With a roll of drums and a rattle of discharge buttons, a magazine called Salute went out to capture the veterans' trade in March 1946. Its staff, like its flavor, came from Yank and Stars and Stripes. But its G.I. appeal wore thin: it seemed that the most appealing thing to veterans was being a civilian again. This week in its February issue, Salute (circ. around 230,000) took off its uniform. With a new staff and a new idea, it had changed into a "picture magazine...
...with the front office. Once, when a Yankee pitcher was called on the mat for openly betting on the horses, Bucky piped up with, "So what ... I'd bet too, if I thought a tip was any good." If he had any fault, it was his reluctance to yank pitchers when the going got rough. But his patience worked wonders with Joe Page, a relief pitcher with an inferiority complex who did more than any player-aside from DiMaggio-to bring the Yankees their 14th pennant in 27 years...
Alarming Bugs. The Navajos, fearful at first of the white man's medicine, watched with blank faces while the doctor treated the white traders. Presently some of the bolder Indians began to ask him to patch up their injured horses and to yank their own aching teeth. The Indians soon discovered that the hospital could be useful, too. When a Navajo dies at home, tribal custom decrees that his hogan (hut) must be burned. By hurrying a dying relative to the hospital, the Navajos learned to save their hogans...