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...change the subject on him," says one executive. "Got too much on his mind-logs in the rivers, paper at the mills, the new presses. . . ." He is also getting a little hard of hearing; the man who stays too long finds the boss drifting off into a Yogi-like silence. His men are careful not to smoke in his presence...
...more important to see how the youngsters are going to play than to win games down here." After almost five years in which big-league baseball had produced little new talent, the accent was on rookies. There was likely to be a dugout-full of new names-such as "Yogi" Berra, Bobby Brown, Johnny Van Cuyk, Ted Kluszewski and "Puddinhead" Jones-in the big leagues this year or next...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI (498 pp.) -Paramhansa Yogananda-Philosophical Library...
Second Time Around. Yogananda says that his earliest memories, as a mere infant, were of a previous incarnation, in which he was "a Yogi amidst the Himalayan snows." Crying spells and "prayerful surges" welled up in the precocious little nipper when he realized that he was no more than a mewling suckling. At the age of eight, he was struck down by Asiatic cholera. He was at death's door when his mother gestured frantically toward a photograph of her favorite yogi, and screamed to her son: "Bow to him mentally [and] your life will be spared!" "I gazed...
...never be said of Arthur Koestler that he picks the easy ones. In his powerful anti-Communist novels (Darkness at Noon, Arrival and Departure) and non-fiction (The Yogi and the Commissar) this tough-minded graduate of Europe's concentration camps sprang hip-deep into the great moral problems of our time. At 41, ex-Communist, now-Socialist Koestler is easily the top intellectual argufier writing today. Still picking the tough ones, he has now written a novel about Palestine and the Jews who claim it as their home. Thieves in the Night will not add a cubit...