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...Jigsaw Saga. At last, convinced that he was a phony, the university hospitals' doctors sent Lamphere packing with a bus ticket to Chicago, gave him money out of their own pockets for cab fare to the terminal. He never got there, but stayed drunk in a downtown hotel, was soon back at the hospital, coughing blood and fevered (103°), pleading for readmission. He won it. After a few days he went berserk, terrorized the ward, smashed furniture and equipment, gashed his thigh with scissors. After more such self-inflicted wounds, Lamphere was committed to a mental hospital...
...House of Four Seasons and James Fisher's The Wonderful World of the Sea; the infancy of the human race lies in Ella Young's evocation of Gaelic Ireland, The Wonder Smith and His Son, and in a reissue of Howard Pyle's saga of the German robber barons. Otto of the Silver Hand. A tall tale is found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses...
...saga of Williams' sixteenth season is already legend. At 39, he was the oldest man ever to win the batting crown, hitting a fantastic .388, compared to Mantle's .365. Williams also poled thirty-eight homers, four more than Mantle. In the most significant single numerical gauge of a hitter's worth, the slugging percentage, Mantle accumulated a mark of .665. This was much less than Williams' .731, the highest record recorded in either league since Williams' 1941 season...
...newspapers, whose feature editors sometimes treat the dog story as the newsman's best friend, got their teeth last week into the shaggiest saga of all time. Cracked a city-room wit as Sputnik 11 hove into the headlines: "It's the first time a dog story made eight-column streamers on every front page in the country." The press gave full coverage to the challenging aspects of the Russian feat. But, in a spree of Muttnik jokes and doggerel, wry puns and photographic gags, it also served up laughter to a nation big enough to chuckle over...
Hero Kennedy went to San Diego as a consultant for the filming of his saga, came back overwhelmed by the technical job but "slightly embarrassed" by the dialogue. Among those missing from the TV audience of PT 109: Senator Kennedy, who was in Jackson, Miss, making a campaign speech...