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...speed kind of keeps you on edge. His arm is so strong he doesn't have to think out there. All he'll have to do is throw the ball in." Optimistic Manager Stengel was talking about Rookie Outfielder Mickey Mantle, 19, the beaming, spring-legged kid just up from Joplin, Mo. (Class C). And by all accounts, Stengel knew what he was talking about...
...Yankee roster (where he would run the risk of gathering bench splinters). But with Joe DiMaggio already on record that the 1951 season will be his last ("The old geezer will be getting out. I can't go on forever"), Rookie Mantle was beginning to look like the kid who might be able to pick up when Joe leaves...
...Yankees' Gil McDougald, 22, an infielder up from Beaumont, Texas, whose batting average (.336) and willowy grace remind some experts of the great Pie Traynor; and Righthander Tom Morgan, 20, a big, stolid kid who won 17 games for Binghamton, N.Y. (Class A) last season. With remarkable rookie control (two walks), Morgan has pitched 13 consecutive scoreless innings for the Yankees in spring training games...
...Lemon Drop Kid (Paramount) undertakes some drastic tailoring to fit a Damon Runyon fable to the measure of Bob Hope. The result is distinctly secondhand Runyon, but it is first-rate Hope...
...Astaire revue entitle Royal Wedding, with Sarah Churchill and Keenan Wynn. The Roxy, 50th and Seventh, proclaims Bird of Paradise its greatest Easter show; the South Sea island idyll involves Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, and Jeff Chandler. The Paramount offers Bob Hope in Damon Runyon's The Lemon Drop Kid, with Billy Eckstine on stage. Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward supply standard Western drama in Rawhide at the Rivoll, another Times Square house...