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Died. Neal Ball, 76, jovial onetime shortstop for the Cleveland Naps (later the Indians), first major leaguer to stage an unassisted triple play; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. On July 9, 1909, with visiting Red Sox runners on first and second, Ball made a diving catch of a line...
Into the Mud. With the aplomb of a man who has had such a request before, the ambassador rounded up his equipment and loaded it into a police car that appeared out front. During the 15-minute ride, he shucked the striped pants and swallow-tailed coat, climbed into trunks...
As editor of Home, NBC's do-it-yourself TV "magazine," Arlene has coxswained a varsity crew, gone down in a diving bell and up on a "cat cracker" (oil refiner), and ridden a camel at the Bronx Zoo. She also showed Homemakers how to make cream puffs and...
The technique that tamed sport parachuting, according to Istel, is sky diving, in which the jumper controls his body as he hurtles toward earth before pulling his ripcord. The skillful sky diver leaves the plane spread-eagled, looking somewhat like a highboard swan diver, his body horizontal. Despite falling speeds...
¶Pretty Patricia McCormick, winner of both Olympic gold medals for women's diving, won her final and most important prize as an amateur. For the outstanding contribution to amateur sportsmanship during 1956, the acrobatic Californian now a pro, got the Sullivan trophy.