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Pinch-Hit Double. Joe may occasionally mispronounce the players' names (he calls Yogi Berra "Berry"), but he has an encyclopedic memory for baseball statistics and stories. He says that he did not get into show business until he was nine but he was a confirmed baseball fan at four. Though he made a living as a circus aerialist in his teens, Joe spent each summer playing semi-pro and minor-league baseball. In 1920 his friend Ed Barrow, manager of the Boston Red Sox, let Joe pinch-hit for Outfielder Harry Hooper in an exhibition game. In what...
Women with babies in their arms peered anxiously over the pit edge as workmen shoveled. At last the burial chamber was opened, and Disciple Wamana entered alone with gifts of flowers, fruit, coins, and ghi (melted butter) with which to massage the yogi. The crowd waited tensely. Wamana emerged alone, his face the color of ashes. The pit, he said, was hot as a furnace; Narayan thought it better not to come out until the following day. The crowd roared with disapproval, and Wamana went back to the pit. Soon he emerged again, this time to confess the truth. Narayan...
...have refused him because of the two contacts he had with pro-Russian groups, both at a time when he was attacking Soviet scientific method. The Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR approached him in 1940. This was just after Arthur Koestler had dedicated his anti-communist. "The Yogi and the Commissar" to Polanyi. Polanyi never took part in the group's activities, and claims his sole purpose in joining was to use translations of Russian works which the group could procure for him. He said the society was not pre communist when he joined, but he quit...
...READ ANYTHING APPEARING WEST OF HOLLAND TUNNEL? STORY OF DORIS DUKE AND HER YOGI WHICH YOU CREDIT TO NEW YORK JOURNAL-AMERICAN IN YOUR SEPT. 29 ISSUE WAS ORIGINATED BY AND PUBLISHED IN THE LOS ANGELES MIRROR SIX DAYS BEFORE MIRROR ENTERPRISES SYNDICATE RELEASED...
Third Game. In the ninth, with the Dodgers leading 3-2, the Bums cracked two singles off Southpaw Ed Lopat, and Stengel moved in Righthander Tommy Gorman. Robinson and Reese welcomed him with a perfect double steal. Then a sinking fast ball got away from Catcher Yogi Berra and both runners scored: Dodgers 5, Yanks...