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Baseball's Leo ("The Lip") Durocher gave Columnist Earl Wilson a dead-end kid's impression of what it is like to share a transcontinental plane seat with Greta Garbo: "She sits next to me and I notice that she's so nervous that her hand is shaking on the arm of the seat... It was her first trip ... I guess she'd never had any bum talk to her before like I did. She got calm . . . That Greta's wonderful. When you see her up close, she's really got a beautiful kisser...
Sweetening. Muggsy well remembers the old wave. He had learned his broad, lazy, middle-register style as a scrawny kid, sitting on the curb outside Chicago's Pekin Cafe, listening chin-in-hand to the stream of notes pouring from the golden horns of Joe ("King") Oliver and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong. He got his first job at 14, blew his head off from 8:30 at night to 4:30 in the morning for $25 a week...
...York City-born Billy the Kid (William Bonney) was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett of Lincoln County, N. Mex., on July 14, 1881, buried the following day in the old military cemetery at Ft. Sumner...
...Golden State (by Samuel Spewack; produced by Bella Spewack) is a hack comedy that sinks even that bounciest and most cork-brained of comediennes, Josephine Hull. Playwright Spewack sets out to kid California's well-known ambition to be El Dorado when, it grows up. Actress Hull plays a hopeful landlady who, through a Spanish ancestor, lays property claims to all of Beverly Hills. Ernest Truex plays a hopeful prospector who thinks he discovers gold in Miss Hull's back yard and makes frenzied forty-niners of the other roomers...
Rule No. 1 for a football official, says Swaffield, "is to make an immediate decision and never take any back talk. You have to act with confidence and calmness. The official who bellows at the boys just makes them antagonistic." Swaffield prefers to kid the players along, make them loosen up and remember that football is just a game, not total warfare...