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...There, It's Yogi Bear is even cuter, kiddies, than the title attempts to suggest. The principal character, whose name and nature are distinctly insulting to the present manager of the New York Yankees, is a chubby and badly drawn bruin who looked reasonably ursine on TV but on the giant screen resembles an enormous and rather soggy cinnamon cookie. He lives in Jellystone National Park but talks like a bear from the Bronx Zoo. "Duh," he announces, "I'm smahtuh dan de avidge bayuh." To prove it he assembles a battalion of "trained picnic ants" and sends...
...Hubley's universe. Too often his art smells of the airbrush. Too often his narration reads like a high school science lecture. All the same it is well to remember that, for the present, the alternative to Hubley's unperfected universe is the witless world of Yogi Bear...
...everyone knew the Bombers had switched to light artillery a few years ago. The pitching and fielding was supposed to make Yogi Berra a first time winner. After a brilliant first week, however, only Whitey Ford has lasted long enough to work up a sweat, and only the Stuartmisled Red Sox have a worse fielding average...
...York Yankees, perennial kings of the American League, lost their opener - with Whitey Ford pitching, no less - went on to lose the next two games as well. "I'm not worried," insisted Manager Yogi Berra. But he should have been. Baseball's numerologists came up with the fascinating information that the Yankees, winners of 28 pennants, have never won in a year that ended with a four...
...restaurants, 175 motor lodges and annual sales of $127 million-to let his son take over. Young Johnson went to Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School, got his education in the business by moving from counterman to candymaker and finally, five years ago, to president. "I feel rather like Yogi Berra," says Sports Fan Johnson. "He says sure he can be a manager, because he does know a bit about baseball." Young Johnson will concentrate on spreading the chain westward (it now has 70% of its stores east of the Mississippi) and increasing sales of its canned and frozen foods...