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...Picture Player. If Joe meant what he said, he was writing the end to a 16-year career that had made the youngster from the San Francisco fishing wharfs a public idol almost overnight. Modest to the point of reticence, and a moody introvert at times, Joe has always lacked the flash and dash of a Babe Ruth or a Ty Cobb; he was a perfectionist of the diamond, a picture player in the Frank Chance tradition. No catch ever looked tough, the way Joe loped up and cradled it. No stance at the plate-bat poised and feet widespread...
...Department of Education will release its finding to mothers, educators, and psychologists when the study ends. Child-rearers can then draw their own conclusions as to whether practices like spanking or permissiveness hurt or help the youngster...
Willie Mays, rookie centerfielder, only 20 and a little bewildered by the big time, struck out wildly, booted routine fly balls, and got only one hit in his first 26 times at bat. Durocher stuck loyally with the youngster, and Willie, a natural hitter with speed to spare, responded to such good effect that he ended up as the likeliest candidate for the National League's rookie-of-the-year...
Sandrino Verges! was on the lookout for the ideal woman. For an angel-faced Italian youngster of 16, his tastes were rather special. "First she resists, and then she lets you gradually kill her, bit by bit . . . I want the feeling of having something that defends itself and that you slowly crush and crush and crush until the life's crushed out of it." In the next room to his, sharing the same grubby apartment house, Sandrino finds someone to his sadistic little heart's desire...
...Force public relations officers rushed around trying to soothe the townsfolk; at an Anglo-American garden party they talked hands across the sea and dismissed Joan Stocker as an impulsive youngster. At week's end, under their prodding eye, she issued a formal statement: "I would like to emphasize very strongly that I was not referring to the town of Newmarket . . . Our rent is just . . . The neighbors . . . have all been swell ... I am proud to live in Newmarket." Newmarket calmed down a bit again...