Word: dodgerism
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From time to time, Mullin will lovingly revive the best-known figure in his sports wonderland: a mournful Dodger Bum, with his tattered coat, scraggly beard, patched pants and woeful cigar. When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, Mullin briefly spruced up his Bum with a sports shirt and dark glasses-but quickly went back to the stogie. After the Dodgers lost the 1953 World Series to the Yankees, Mullin had his Bum futilely chasing a light-footed brunette in a parody of Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn ("Thou still unravish'd bride...
...seldom crusades: "I don't think I'm God-I'm not running the world." But Mullin often strops a sharp edge on a drawing. One neatly sliced target: spitting Slugger Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox. Another: Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley, pictured as a Mullinesque carpetbagger while he prepared to move his team to Los Angeles (TIME, April 28) in search of the dollar. Says O'Malley, undaunted: "I am very high on Mr. Mullin...
...Walter Alston unnerved by photos that showed him hanging in effigy near the hocks of a San Pedro, Calif, gas station's flying red horse? "I'm more worried about winning today's game," said the Dodger manager, still running on half a tank of sporting cliches. "You do the best you can, and it's useless to worry about it. It's not so nice to lose as to win, but you have to learn to take...
...doctors of medicine. Although the title "has come to be equated with medical practitioner," he continues, "by ancient definition, 'doctor' means one sufficiently skilled in any branch of knowledge to teach it." Dr. Seymour acknowledges that there are some weak programs leading to Ph.D.s (a onetime Brooklyn Dodger bat boy, he got his from Cornell for a history of baseball). But at its best, he writes, "the character of the work entailed in obtaining the Ph.D. from a first-class university calls forth intellectual powers of a higher order than does that involving the M.D. Although the latter...
Final Innings. All evening the returns came in as the count progressed on whether the people of Los Angeles wanted a goat pasture called Chavez Ravine changed into a site for a big-league stadium (TIME, April 28)-and consequently, whether the legend L.A. on the Dodgers' caps was to become a permanent symbol or a passing memory. All evening the count was closer than the game (final score: Cincinnati 8, L.A. 3). Not until late the next afternoon was Dodger President Walter O'Malley satisfied that his team had won the referendum. The Dodgers themselves reacted...