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Running the Roost. And what was happening to the Cards without Keane? Nothing so terrible. Another old Redbird was running the roost: Red Schoendienst, 42, the second most popular man in St. Louis-next to Stan Musial, of course. Stricken with tuberculosis in 1958, Schoendienst had part of a lung removed, came back to bat .300 in both 1961 and 1962. Red worked as a coach for Keane last year, and he obviously picked up a few pointers. He announced a midnight curfew, took to the field himself to demonstrate how to elude a rundown...
...riding in a car driven by Jean-Paul Belmondo, her costar, when the car ran off the road; Belmondo broke a wrist, but Jerome suffered a severe concussion. He was in a coma for 14 days, during which time Jeanne left his side only to console the guilt-stricken Belmondo. "I was unaware she had such strength," said a friend...
Pied Piper Procession. By last week King decided to employ more dramatic tactics: he led 237 Negroes on a mass march to the courthouse, ignored the admonition of Selma's public safety director, Wilson Baker, who has been desperately trying to keep peace in the strife-stricken town and who kept running out to pluck at Parade Leader King's sleeve and saying: "This is a deliberate attempt to violate the city's parade ordinance. You know the law. You've been abiding by it for two weeks. You've had plenty of time...
Exposure Problem. Perlman is a polio victim. He hobbles onto the stage on crutches and plays sitting down. He was stricken with the disease when he was four and lived for one year in bed with his violin. As soon as he was able to get around, he entered music school. At 13, he won a scholarship to Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, where he has been a student ever since. His parents, Zionist pioneers who came to Israel in the 1930s, moved to New York City with him. His father now folds shirts in a Manhattan laundry...
...Marcel Marceau has proved, a brilliant mime can reveal wistful, grief-stricken and joyous states of human feeling. But after an evening of planned misery with the Polish Mime Theater, one merely wonders if Communism can really be all that...