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Sink or Swim. His father died after eating tainted Army beef during the Spanish-American War-a tragedy which set off young Fiorello's lifelong rage against profiteering, careless government and exploitation. He attacked the unfriendly world with the dash of a Garibaldi...
...Beefs. Bucky Harris' performance, in his first season as Yankee manager, was a classical study in human relations. At 50, his long string of failures after a smashing initial success (as the "boy manager" of the 1924 Washington Senators) had given Bucky a special understanding of athletes and their failings. He never bawled a player out. His theory: a pat on the back is worth two pep talks. He took a talented but out-of-sorts team, listened to all the complaints, took the players' side in any beef with the front office. Once, when a Yankee pitcher...
...Roast Beef but No Steak...
Considerably more touchy is the question of the Varsity Club Training Table, which opened this week. "What steaks?" seems to be the unanimous reply to the traditional inquiry. "We get roast beef on the day of a game." Actually, the Varsity footballers get pretty much the same quality food as their undergraduate brothers, with a few alterations in the menu. For instance toast (not bread) appears on the training table. There is plenty of milk, but no coffee and only occasionally tea, while fried foods and sweets are also avoided...
...Snigger from Mother. About an hour before the mutes arrived, Mother's will was read. But Mother, "with her fondness for underdone beef and breezy unpleasantness," was to have the last word. Edna was to inherit on one condition: she must be earning ?5 a week within a month of the funeral. In her whole life, Edna had never earned anything but a snigger from Mother. But as the family smiled, Edna felt a quiet pleasure in her new-found sense of freedom...