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After being lionized as the old darling of the Cannes film festival, veteran (68) Slapstick Producer Mack Sennett returned to Hollywood with a bit of advice for Americans going to France: "Don't be surprised by anything." To show what he meant, Sennett recalled a Maurice Chevalier show in Paris where the chorus girls bounced around naked from the waist up. Said Sennett primly: "I had to clean my glasses three times to make sure...
Besides his pinpoint control, sweeping curve and baffling knuckler, Shantz has a sneaky fast ball that draws "ohs" and "ahs" from the fans whenever he lets it go. Old (89) Connie Mack, who has seen them all, calls him "the greatest fielding pitcher I ever saw." As a major leaguer, Shantz has allowed only two bunts to become hits. Says Manager Jimmy Dykes: "Anyone who bunts against Shantz is nuts. Bobby comes off that mound like a cat at a mousehole. When he's pitching we have five infielders." Dykes's one "complaint" about his little lefthander...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 16-In a despard attempt to slip under tomorrow's deadline for the 25-player limit the Mt. Auburn Clowns last night sent 23 1/2 players to the Wingashee Beach-combers of the Coast League in return for veteran 92-year-old manger Cornelius "Connie" Mack-U, who has come out of retirement for today's titanic tiff with D. C. D. Rogers Hahnsby's Rampaging Red-Eds. With only nine players left on his squad, Mack-U still voiced confidence last night. "We'll be like the old Gag-House Gang," he gurgled gleefully, "with such...
...Downs. His driving ambition got him a contract with Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics. He was 18, cocky and confident. But after a few weeks on the Greenville (Miss.) Class C farm club, Infielder Stanky was not so sure he wanted to be a major leaguer after all. Homesick and desperately unhappy, he wrote to his parents for money to come home. After ten anxious days he got a terse refusal from his mother. The letter ended: "We don't want any quitters in our family...
Alfred N. (for Nu*) Steele is a 51-year-old executive who keeps a bottle on his desk and takes frequent swigs from it, even when he has visitors in his office. The bottle contains Pepsi-Cola, the drink that Steele took over two years ago when Walter Mack was kicked upstairs to chairman (later he left the company). At the time, Pepsi had gone flat: earnings were down 78% from their peak, dividends had been stopped. Since then, President Steele has proved that he has plenty of bounce to every ounce of his 208 Ibs. Last week he reported...