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...Play Ball." Then Veeck fetched up a gag calculated to rouse angry mutterings throughout baseball's official hierarchy. Against the Detroit Tigers, Veeck led off his batting order with the strangest figure ever to wear a major-league uniform: brandishing a toy bat, a midget (3 ft. 7 in.) named Ed Gaedel stepped up to the plate. Before the Tigers could protest, Manager Taylor produced a bona fide contract, and the baffled umpire said, "Play ball." Tiger Pitcher Bob Cain, obviously afraid of hitting the batter with a fast pitch, admitted defeat by giving Gaedel an intentional walk* (Final...
Anyone expecting a crime of passion at this point reckons without the glacial restraint of modern British novelists. Author William Sansom muzzles the tiger in the blood in order to muster a conversational mouse in the drawing room. In The Face of Innocence, the crisp, angled light of his prose gives the mouse an exaggerated shadow. So does his main theme: that things are rarely what they seem...
Married. Clyde Beatty, 45, the big top's No. 11ion & tiger trainer; and Mrs. Lorraine Abel, 29, nightclub singer; he for the third time, she for the second; in Bellingham, Wash...
...kans fighters met handicaps. Landlords and peasants alike protested the "ruining of the land." Many a native tractor driver, leaving his machine in a field overnight, returned to find a tiger sleeping in the driver's seat. Wild elephants, nature's tractors, frequently came to inspect their mechanized cousins. Bulldozers had to be drafted to build roads through the wilderness to carry fuel to the big machines. Despite India's heat and dust, the drivers-many of whom had driven tanks in the Indian army-kept their machines in top condition. When the tractors successfully cleared...
...explaining limply that he had been "re-educated by the magnanimous people's government." He went back to his storytelling, but somehow his heart did not seem to be in it. Then one day he told his fans the story of a legendary outlaw who had killed a tiger by slamming it against a rock. "That mountain cat was tough," grinned Kan, "but no match for that rock." His audience rocked and rolled with laughter, for in Chinese the word for cat sounds very much like Mao (as in Mao Tse-tung) and the word for rock is shek...