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Milwaukee's pitchers were even better than anyone had figured; Yankee hitters failed at crucial moments. The Braves' Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette had Yankee batters hitting impotent pop-ups and harmless grounders. Not only did they look bad at bat, the Bronx Bombers persisted in perpetrating boners on the baseline and afield. Seldom, if ever, had the New Yorkers botched a World Series so badly...
Blue-Water Racer. Ever since he learned to sail as a boy on Cape Cod, Designer Stephens has shown the same loving and calculating care for boats. Son of a prosperous Bronx coal dealer, he completed one year at M.I.T., got jaundice, never went back to college. Instead, he studied ship design so thoroughly by himself that when he was only 19 Marine Architect Drake H. Sparkman asked him to form a partnership. Later, Architect W. Starling Burgess invited Stephens to collaborate on the J-Boat Ranger, the fastest yacht in history,* which defended the America...
...squat little man with the crewcut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural for three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxophone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...
Supporting player: Herbert Stempel, 31, brainy product of The Bronx, who seems to want nothing better than to be part of Dan Enright's world. Among the things these two men have in common is a strange reliance on the cliches of psychoanalysis-the ex-slum kid's new equalizer...
Without Sugar. In The Bronx, N.Y., after bookkeeper Sylvia Youngerman went to a bank for a $2,000 payroll and to a restaurant for an order-to-go, a thief confronted her, snatched a sack out of her hand, fled with a container of coffee...