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...with: "Hey, Al, watch your pigtails." The growls changed to grins and cheers when Al pitched (all three innings) and won the game, 11-0. Said Alice afterwards, with conscious but nonchalant pride: "I made all the outs but four, and all were strike-outs but one. One kid hit a grounder, and I fielded it and threw to first. I guess I do all right at fielding...
...Dead-End Kid. The gift from God came into the world Jan. 31, 1921. Mario (real name: Alfredo Arnold Cocozza) was born and grew up in South Philadelphia. As part of the self-made Lanza legend, he sometimes likes to shock friends or interviewers by painting a lurid picture of his old neighborhood as a hotbed of crime, where stray gangster bullets might have nipped his career at any moment. Outraged by some of the tall tales, South Philadelphians once hurled stones and tomatoes at Lanza's grandfather's home, and made a public ceremony of smashing...
...brought up their only child with pampering indulgence. The elder Cocozza, a decorated World War I combat veteran on a total disability pension, is a semi-invalid; his wife worked as a seamstress in the Army quartermaster depot. Freddy, as everyone called their son, was a spoiled, reckless kid: one of his teachers still remembers him with a shudder as "one of the biggest bums that ever came into the public-school system...
Citation knew he was going to race that day. He failed to get the usual hay in his late morning feeding. Said Groom Dan Barnette: "He squealed and reared up in his stall just like a kid after being told he's going to his first circus." It was a good sign. Citation was ready to run for the $100,000 Hollywood Gold Cup at Inglewood, Calif...
...study the foreign-aid program, and used the occasion to study Ike Eisenhower. True, whenever they had tried to get politically confidential, Eisenhower had hurriedly called in two of his aides. One returning Republican said: "It was like getting ready to propose to your girl, then having her kid brothers bust in on you." But each Republican got the same definite impression: although Ike was not saying, he would be available, in case anyone was still seriously in doubt. And his freely expressed fears about the growth of U.S. bureaucracy convinced them that "he sounds more & more like a Republican...