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Durocher's Trick. The big surprise of the season was what had kept the Brooklyn bums up so long. The answer was easy: it was all an Indian rope trick by the Dodgers' dapper Leo Ernest ("The Lip") Durocher (pronounced Dee-ro-ture in Brooklyn), a man who owns 20 pairs of shoes and pays $175 apiece for his suits...
...President Perón"? The President had a scornful, possibly significant answer. "I am not worried about the future," he said. "If anybody wants to stage a revolution, I will stage one myself a week before him. All it will amount to is providing a few yards of rope to my 'descamisados' (shirtless ones) and then we will see who strings up who. I have half a million descamisados, and as Napoleon said, with me at their head we total one million...
...Seat. In Munnsville, N.Y., Farmer Wesley Bolin slid down a rope from a hayloft, set off matches in his pocket, watched his barn burn to the ground...
With an inch-thick unstranded rope the white men in the pasture took turns at flogging their prisoner. McAtee's wife, watching from a clump of bushes, finally saw her husband doubled up in a truck heading down the road. When the body of Leon McAtee floated up in the bayou later, it was 60 miles from the scene of the flogging...
Balanced Diet. In Mannheim, Germany, after a carnival owner reported the loss of "the only pigs in the world that could walk a tight-rope on their hind legs," military police got a hot clue: Polish guards had dined on pork chops...