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What Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen saw in spring training this year was a lanky (6 ft. 1 in., 165 Ibs.), cocksure youngster with plenty of promise, but little experience. Dressen asked Loes how he held the ball for various pitches. Loes's laconic answer: "I figure it doesn't make any difference how you hold it just as long as you get the batter out." The reply tickled Dressen, who said, "He's got guts." Loes also has gall. Two weeks before the season opened, Loes told Dressen:"You're looking for an opening-day pitcher...
...given his third start, against Philadelphia. He won again, 5-0, allowing but five hits. It was his fifth straight victory, over five different teams. In 43⅓ innings, brash Billy Loes has allowed only three earned runs, for a remarkable earned-run average of .063. Admittedly a jittery youngster, Loes thinks singlemindedness is the key to his effectiveness: "The only time I'm not nervous is when I'm pitching. When I'm out there I only think about one thing, the pitch I'm going to throw this...
Like any other Negro kid growing up in the South, Boy got the idea very fast: white is right. But he was a serious youngster, and sometimes the useful rule of thumb became confusing. When, for instance, the local big shots gave him a scholarship to a Negro college, his faith in the white man soared. But at the stag smoker where the scholarship was awarded, the men he looked up to forced him to look on while a naked blonde did a lascivious dance, and the town's best citizens got haywire drunk...
...Going to Yale." Legend has it that Carey Estes Kefauver was a poor-but-honest youngster raised in a rough Tennessee mountain cabin. This is just a legend. The Kefauvers were a branch of one of the first families of Madisonville. Tenn., a small (pop. 1,487) town in the foothills of the Great Smokies. Aside from Depression stringencies, father Robert Cooke Kefauver was comfortably fixed. He owned a local hardware store and served five times as mayor of Madisonville. To pick up extra money and toughen himself for football at the University of Tennessee, young "Keef" worked through...
...Franks are sure that they did the right thing. Petey is happy with other children, and is getting the best of care. And their second child, three-year-old Gretchen, is a normal youngster enjoying a normal home life...