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...totality of the Yankee collapse seems to baffle Houk as much as anybody. "I've never been with a losing club before, either as a manager or a player," he mutters. Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre, a 20-game winner last year, is a 17-game loser this season. Leftfielder Tom Tresh, a .279 hitter in 1965, is batting .238. The team as a whole is batting .237. They have lost 33 games by a margin of one run, and they have been unable even to beat their old patsies, the Washington Senators and the California Angels...
...salted with social protest. It is played at a feverish pitch by Sammy Davis Jr., who has surrounded himself with such Negro performers as Ossie Davis, Louis Armstrong and, as the girl in his cheering section, a sunburst of shy sepia charm named Cicely Tyson. A handful of jazzmen (Mel Torme, Kai Winding, Nat Adderly) make the score swing but aren't much help otherwise, except as evidence that when Sammy plays a good gig, his pals can be sure of work. Even Frank Sinatra Jr. sits in, tussling with a sappy role as Davis' sidekick, and Peter...
...Inside Mel Miller's office, the bulldozers and cement are shut out, but you don't leave change behind. Miller, publisher and half of the official writing staff of Roxbury's seven-month-old Negro newspaper, the Bay State Banner sits down, puts his feet up on the desk, and begins to talk excitedly about the changes going on in Roxbury. He touches on urban renewal and construction of new buildings, mentions new schools and community centers, and then federal, state, and local relief programs with unintelligible letter codes--Operation Head Start, ABCD, or the BRA. He also talks about...
Lowest in the Majors. That kind of pitching should make McDowell the sensation of the young season. But he had to share the spotlight last week with San Francisco's Willie Mays-who hit the 512th home run of his career, thereby breaking Mel Ott's 19-year-old National League record-and with his own Cleveland teammates. At week's end, the Indians were leading the second-place Baltimore Orioles by two full games. McDowell's fellow pitcher Luis Tiant had yet to lose in three starts, and the entire Cleveland pitching staff boasted...
Pardee will also enter the broad jump, in which Navy's Tom Palkie is a favorite, and the triple jump, in which Princeton's Mel Branch holds a slight edge. Both fields are remarkably even. No one has reached 24 feet in the broad jump or 47 feet in the triple jump...