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...thought that was very amusing to me, because, well, I have smelled rotten eggs, sir, and that is what a stink bomb smells like," she burbled. "Mr. Hubshman [Robert Hubshman, a Teamster slugger] and Mr. Brady [Philip Brady, business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Scranton] had discussed this with me, and I can't call them 'mister'-I am so used to calling them Bob and Billy and so on. Bob, he said to me, 'Wait until they try soap and water to clean that up.' Because, he said, 'Only...
...blood-gushing days of the 1930s, Frank Brewster, chief slugger for the Teamsters' Union on the West Coast, once walloped a cop in a picket-line brawl, was hauled off to headquarters, beaten almost to death -and arose from his knees to cut a swath of destruction with his manacled hands. But Frank Brewster decided he wanted to be more than a brick-fisted mug. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, From Goon to Gent...
Scoring more as a boxer's point than a slugger's blow, Medicine Show adds to Levine's steady advance as an artist who bucks the current abstract trend. By moving his subject matter outdoors and placing it under a blue sky, he has tackled a multitude of problems concealed in the murk of his previous nightclubs, restaurants and courtroom scenes. Like Levine's other major works. Medicine Show almost certainly will end up as a prize museum catch. Probable price: over...
Aside from some secondary, late-season statistics, the American League pennant race is over. The Yankees are in. Yet even Yankee haters are still watching the ball games, for these days the Yanks supply their own competition. Every inning that he comes to bat, their broad-backed slugger, Mickey Charles Mantle, tangles with one of baseball's fanciest records: the massive total of 60 home runs hit by the Yankees' Babe Ruth during the 1927 season...
...Lest the American League be overlooked, Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams walloped his 400th home run in a game with the Kansas City Athletics, then expressed his pleasure by spitting at the assembled writers in the press box. Just in case it was misunderstood, Ted repeated his hit-and-spit performance a few days later. Reaching automatically for their record books, the sportswriters credited Ted with a new major-league record for public expectoration...