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There's a 17-year-old college freshman in Queens, N.Y., named Maxine Siegel who wants to buy a 40-year-old real live doll named Yogi Berra. Two weeks ago, when the New York Mets decided to get the most out of Yogi's coaching by taking him off their player roster, they put him on waivers for $1. Explained a Mets spokesman: "Naturally, no one would claim him-it's a gentleman's agreement among clubs." Trouble is, Maxine is no gentleman. She's a Yogi fan. So she whipped off a letter...
Names flew like a cast of characters. Had CBS paid $15,000 for the leopard coat that Actress Barbra Streisand wears in this week's CBS spectacular? No. Had CBS ordered the firing of Manager Yogi Berra when it bought control of the New York Yankees? No. Did CBS intend to enclose Yankee Stadium with a dome similar to Houston's new Astrodome? Emphatically no. Had CBS bought Comedian Jackie Gleason's $300,000 circular home as "a reducing spa for tired executives?" No, said Paley, it had bought the house to "induce Mr. Gleason to stay...
...Former Yankee Manager Yogi Berra: a $70,000, two-year contract as coach with the National League's New York Mets. Pocketing $25,000 in severance pay from his former employers, Berra became the third big Yankee name (with ex-Manager Casey Stengel, ex-General Manager George Weiss) to join the Mets-a clear indication that the Yankees are quickly becoming the Mets' favorite farm team...
Orlovsky was squatting like a yogi on the floor, typing out snatches of our conversation, misspelling every third word, but hanging in there as if without the typewriter he might just float off through the ceiling. I wondered what had held Allen Peter together for so many years and realized that, apart from sex, their communication must be not verbal, or visual like Allen's disrobing, but telepathic--in the spirit of the wordless interplay between members of a highly coordinated jazz combo...
...Dean Burch: Yogi Berra's reward was being fired for not taking the World Series. What would Burch suggest for the manager of a '64 political-pennant contender who strengthened his pitching staff for the race by trading Abe Lincoln for Strom Thurmond...