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Millionaire Philip Knight Wrigley has had many radical ideas since he inherited his father's gum and baseball empire in 1932. He popularized Ladies' Day at big-league ball parks. He introduced sticks of gum to U.S. Army combat rations. For $185,000 he bought Dizzy Dean after his best pitching days were over. Last week P. K. Wrigley unwrapped his latest idea: a professional softball league for women...
...Slacks, No Cuties. Such hoydenish antics have long irked Phil Wrigley, a pioneer softball patron who can remember when the game was known as kittenball among Chicago's early devotees. Other things that Patron Wrigley objected to were the unladylike costumes affected by the players and the undignified names their sponsors tagged on them - such as Slapsie. Maxie's Curvaceous Cuties, the Num Num Pretzel Girls, Barney Ross's Adorables and the Dr. Pepper Girls of Miami Beach...
Before William Wrigley Jr. died in his sleep on the morning of Jan. 26, 1932, his long grey-brown mountain in the sea off Southern California (purchase price $3,000,000, improvements $20,000,000) had become a profitable combination of poor man's Nassau and rich man's Coney Island. Last week, when the U.S. Maritime Service opened its second largest training station for merchant seamen on Catalina's crescent-shored Avalon bay, only the shape of the island remained as William Wrigley left...
...tourists once stared back at opal-eyed bass, were tied up at the docks. The $2,000,000, twelve-story casino, on whose Moorish-Spanish exterior thousands of weekenders penciled their names, was a part time classroom; the expensive St. Catherine Hotel was a training headquarters and barracks; the Wrigley-built Hotel Atwater was a school and dormitory for marine stewards, cooks and bakers...
...When Little Rock sold him to the Cubs, the ebullient Newsom started to drive to Chicago to congratulate Owner Phil Wrigley on getting such a superb pitcher. The car, driven at the routine Newsom rate of 90-odd miles per hour, jumped the icy road. Just before spring training, Newsom went to a mule sale, and a mule kicked his freshly healed leg into smithereens again...