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...deteriorating press relations of the Dodgers," said Red Smith, "have been the liveliest topic of conversation in the training camps this spring. To put it simply, at least some of the Dodger executive family are assiduously courting the California press, a wise policy, and wish the New York writers would get lost, which is stupid. They feel they no longer need the New York press, and have gone out of their way to make this clear...
...clear sign of the new order, Columnist Smith noted at the Dodgers' camp at Vero Beach. Fla., was "the impounding" by club officials of Manhattan newspapers that carried stories critical of the Dodgers, "lest the Los Angeles contingent be contaminated." Other "small reprisals": the Dodgers' announcement that their plane would take only California sportswriters to citrus-circuit exhibition games; the "eviction" of New York newsmen from sleeping quarters at Dodgertown; timing of press releases, which in the case of a spring-training automobile accident involving Duke Snider and two teammates were held up to favor Western dailies...
...lovefest came as a complete surprise to Atkinson, an inveterate party-dodger, who was lured to the restaurant by his author-wife, Oriana. The "sentimental works," as Variety called it, included a citation from Actors Equity, encomiums from such absent admirers as William Saroyan and Clifford Odets, and a letter in which choleric Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey grew moist-eyed over Critic Atkinson's "splendid defense" of the theater "throughout the times of many great events, alarums, sennets and disputes...
...From the Glen Cove, N.Y. hospital where a car crash landed him with a broken neck (TIME, Feb. 10) came an encouraging bulletin on Dodger Catcher Roy Campanella. Still paralyzed from the waist down, Roy has improved in "muscle strength," and "he is now able to move his wrists and straighten out his arms. The sense of feeling ... is now down to the upper abdomen...
Three times Campanella was named the most valuable player in the National League. But even when he was not hitting (.242 in 1957), Campy helped the Dodgers by just being around. He coached the rookies who were after his job, relaxed the bench with sly tales of his seven seasons of barnstorming through the hinterlands of Negro baseball. He never got over the fact that he was a grown man being paid to play a boy's game. "You know, I'll play for nothing if I have to," he once told a startled Dodger official during...