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...teed off on a three-and-one pitch and lofted it over the leftfield roof for a homer. His batting average started to climb. In the field he could do no wrong, did much that was phenomenal. He had an unconscious knack for doing the spectacular, an uncanny instinct for anticipating batters and baserunners. Once, when he dove out from under his cap (Mays frequently loses his cap) to catch a sinking line drive, he reached back, caught his cap in one hand and the ball in the other. Against the Dodgers one day, he raced into right center after...
...make that good predominate." Columbia's Talbot Hamlin, 65, ranking U.S. architectural historian, authority on early 19th century American architecture, editor of the monumental (four volumes, $80) Forms and Functions of Twentieth Century Architecture. The son of a professor of architecture, Hamlin entered the field almost by instinct ("Well, let's put it this way. I never wanted to do any thing else"), made a name for himself in practice, turned to teaching, became the bearded, debonair exponent of a brand of functionalism not divorced from humanity: "The pleasure one gets from perceiving character in a building...
...ship and joined the Navy. He ended up on troopships and spent most of World War I shuttling between New York and Liverpool as a helmsman aboard the captured liner Leviathan. Meanwhile, the family money was dwindling away as the result of father's optimistic but ill-conceived instinct for investment...
There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment . . . You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct -in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized...
...acre lease from the Texas Co. and agreed to drill 200 wells on it (at an average cost of $50,000 a well). Texaco's geologists doubted that he could even make interest on his $10 million investment. Instead, he netted $15 million. Following his gambler's instinct, he wanted to spread the risk of the oil business by going into other fields. He chose insurance companies first, since they are not taxed on part of their income. He bought Reserve Loan Life in Indiana, Atlantic Life in Richmond, and Tennessee's Lamar Life. They...