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Living in Glamour. At 20 (and looking younger), unrestrainedly ambitious and insufferably cocksure, Zanuck set out to conquer Hollywood. He quickly became the nuisance of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, which was then home to such important personages as Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett and Fatty Arbuckle. "I'd have given my right arm to be in the picture business," he recalls. "Living in the glamour of it, hearing stories about it all day long and not being a part of it, hurt...
...Mack Sennett, 66, aging chief of the Keystone Cops, was finishing his first novel. Ingredients: the same old "gags, pie throwing and so on, hung on the theme of a story." Title: The Quince ("You know, the sour fruit on the family tree...
Once again, Connie (Cornelius McGillicuddy) Mack, 87, beginning his 50th year as manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, denied the annual rumor that he would retire at the end of the season: "It's-it's preposterous...
...Casey Stengel, puts it, "We'll all be knocking our heads together this year . . . Detroit is much better. Cleveland will be a lot tougher, and so will Connie's Athletics." (The A's are out to win one more pennant for 87-year-old Connie Mack, to celebrate his 50th, and perhaps last, year as their manager...
Stuffy McInnis, first baseman of Connie Mack's immortal $100,000 infield, is starting his sophomore year at Harvard. Memories of warm climates encountered during the spring southern jaunt last year, will remain memories. He'll travel of course, ten out of the last eleven games are away, but they're not far enough away to allow swimming after the games. By playing the Boston teams he'll meet some of the toughest opposition in the northeast. All in all there's a 19 game schedule and its just a little more than three weeks away...