Word: dodgerism
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...Talk Dodger. In Hutovo, Yugoslavia, Petar Mustafic, 90, who had "not said a word in 40 years, began to talk, explained that "I just didn't want to do military service, so I stopped talking in 1920. Then I got used...
...rookie digs in at the plate, the sun-soaked fans at Vero Beach, Fla. nudge each other and lean forward. Down on the field, leathery veterans turn away from their pepper games and sliding drills to watch. When the Los Angeles Dodgers' Frank Howard, 23, puts the power of his 6-ft. y-in., 240-lb. body behind the swing of his 37-in. bat, he can smash drives that make infielders repent choosing their profession, and send outfielders scrambling back to the orange groves. Says Dodger Coach Pete Reiser: "I've never seen anyone hit the ball...
...Nazi invasion. He rushes off to the army, leaving her a letter of explanation, but the letter is mislaid, and she thinks she has been jilted. When her parents are killed in an air raid, she goes to pieces and lets herself be seduced by a no-good draft-dodger who plays the piano. She spends the rest of the picture in Siberia, nursing wounded soldiers and trying to work her spiritual passage home...
Black is so generous with his 1,000 employees, whose personnel manager is onetime Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, that he gives them 10% of his profits as a Christmas bonus. But his big-scale generosity began in 1957, when his chief company auditor contracted Parkinson's disease, joining 1,500,000 other U.S. victims. Black promptly launched the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. He has given the foundation $250,000-just part of the total $1,000,000 that he had already given to medical causes before his outright gift to Columbia...
...three years to the delight of neighborhood wise guys, recalls: "I probably had more fights than any other kid in my end of the city." At Loyola University of Los Angeles, Newell was a three-letter man, after graduation spent an indifferent season as an outfielder in the Dodger farm system before turning to high school coaching...