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...this year, brilliant pitching and fabulous hitting. We've already had four no-hitters, a 20-game winner, and 209 strikeouts by a pitcher, who hasn't worked since July 17. We've had Floyd Robinson's six-for-six, grand-slam homeruns in a single inning by Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew. Tommy Davis's 112 RBI, and Stan Musial's consistently great hitting...
Besides the new faces, Minnesota has its (relatively) old standby's, Earl Battey Lennie Green, Bob Allison, and Harmon Killebrew. The Twins have a real weakness, however, and it is a big one. After righhander Camilo Pascual and southpaw Jim Kaat, starting pitchs are hard to find...
Over the years, the program has had dozens of embryonic celebrities in its cast: young Fibber McGee and Molly, Patti Page, Johnny Desmond, Fran Allison, etc. And people have kept up with McNeill's own family as if he were everybody's first cousin. He has three sons, and each birth was big spot-news on the show...
...1950s. Above all, the steelmakers complain that President Kennedy's determination to hold the price line denies them the capital that they need to cut their costs through modernization of their plants. At the American Iron & Steel Institute meeting in Manhattan fortnight ago, Pittsburgh Steel's President Allison R. Maxwell Jr. summed up the industry's complaints: "Prices must be high enough to build the markets of tomorrow. We need tremendous new investment in ultramodern facilities, and the money to finance this investment is ultimately derived from just one source-profits...
...confidence in the future, provoked widespread fears that the President intended to fasten de facto controls on prices and profits. The intensity of this feeling was reflected this week at the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute in Manhattan, where Pittsburgh Steel's President Allison R. Maxwell Jr. bitterly accused Kennedy of heading "toward a form of socialism in which the pretense of private property is retained while, in fact, prices, wages, production and distribution are dictated by bureaucrats." When Allison finished his speech, the 1,000 assembled steelmen gave him a standing ovation...