Stengel: His Life and Times

...Creamer, to his credit, eschews the dreadful and fraudulent memorial style used in so many sports biographies, and the result is an admirable and sympathetic book, one of the few sports books you can read in the open without feeling like a fool...

...McGraw courted the press and had "his writers," feeding them well with lines like " I think we can win i t - - i f my brains hold out" and "Sportmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds...

...Whitey Herzog, who knows something about baseball and managing, once summed up Casey Stengeh "Casey was the best public relations man who ever lived...

...In this issue of SURVEY we scrutinize Andropov's 15 months in power and analyse what Chernenko's succession may signal...

...He raged at umpires, roughed u p his players, kicked photographers in the seat of the pants...

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...civilian and military leaders in the 1980's...

...01-836 4194) The Colette of the music hall--so bold and infamous--was in significant part a contented, conventional, domestic creature...

...Robert W. Creamer comes to much the same conclusion...

...He tossed off one-liners that among sportswriters passed for wisdom: "Well, I've made my mind up both ways," and " I always heard it couldn't be done, but sometimes it don't always work...

...Vietnam As History examine~what scholars now know --and still don't l~now--about the higher conduct of the war in 1964-1973...

...165 pages, LC: 83-25886 Cloth, 370(~ $11.50 Power and History: The Political Thought of James Burnham by Samuel T. Francis A study of the political thought of James Burnham, a principal figure in conservative intellectual renaissance in America since 1945...

...He was almost 59, an age when most men are looking forward to retirement, and he was taking the biggest challenge of his life...

...He slid across a hotel lobby, demonstrating the finishing flourish he gave to one inside-the-park home run...

...Bare feet, unexpectedly bashful, groped under the makeup table for shapeless old slippers, while hands, pale or red, suddenly become cautious in unrolling lengths of linen and bits of imitation lace . . . . The five of them, now seated on their high rush stools, are busy and quiet, as if they had at last reached their goal at the end of the day...

...She appreciated the number of naturally occurring masquerades, and had no patience with deliberate hypocrisy...

...Vietnam As History: Ten Years After the Paris Peace Accords edited by Peter Braestrup, editor The Wilson Quarterly In early 1983, some 50 leading historians and analysts of the U.S...

...On top of it all, the old Case invented Stengelese...

...He got involved in a brawl afield at age 66...

...These fellas just can't write the box scores, you know," he once said, and proceeded to give them things to write about...

...Therein lies the key to Colette...

...In the 1974 biography, Babe, which was esteemed as the first adult Ruppert Mundy is a writer living in New York City...

...And during this half hour they allow themselves, as a respite, the candid illusion of being cloistered young women who sew...

...I became a major-league manager in several cities and was discharged...

...He knew exactly what he was doing all the time...

...Chernenko, in his role as ideological controller, has been promoting " socialist realism " in the Soviet arts and literature...

...He knew what he was doing, the old one, and when his playing days were over he talked himself into several managerial jobs, notably with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves...

...a young man in the midst of confessing, with horrible, unconscious candor, that he couldr~'t sleep if the fringes on the Turkish towels hung on the rack to dry were not lined up with each o t h e r . . . "But I can't tell Claudie that," thought Madame Grey agitatedly . . . . "I could never talk to her about towel fringe, or about the thumbnail going back and forth across his lip a hundred t i m e s . . , small, terrible things, the mold that grows on married l i f e . . . " So transitory is first love and its blessed blindness that Colette is able to write of a new wife's adoration turning to horror overnight...

...Andropov and Chernenko Whither Big Brother...

...He mimicked his own players...

...Over the next 12 years, the old man piloted the Yankees to ten American League pennants and seven World Series championships, and steered himself into what the more pompo0s commentators call the National Consciousness...

...She took her refuge in being someone her critics failed to see...

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...We call it discharged because there is no question that I had to leave...

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...This volume traces the development of Burnham's thought on human nature, history, American society and politics, and international relations from his break with Trotskyism in 1940 through his career at National Review in the 1970s and focuses on the influences on him...

...The Baseball Manager laid it on good and thick, and the senators chortled and guffawed at the superior entertainment that was theirs right in the Caucus Room...

...Robert Creamer provides numerous examples, and, where necessary, translates...

...What Stengel was doing, of course, was adding to the American cast of characters...

...This stream-of-consciousness free association confounded the press, and often the team...

...How does a woman who sees everything changing at a moment's notice, who believes nothing is what it seems to be, find stability...

...He was practicing, of course, for the Big Moment...

...208 pages, LC: 83-21748 Paper, 3654-9 $8.75 Cloth, 3653-0 $16.75 Culture and Politics by Ronald Berman Describes the meteoric rise of the National Endowment for the Humanities from a small, unnoticed federal agency to one of the nation's largest grant-making institutions...

...In an erratic world, she had no one to depend upon but herself, the one person she knew and liked best...

...Thomas Carlyle, the English man of letters, who knew something about life Domestic content, comparable worth, the deficit, special interests, welfare, mergers...

...Finally, he learned something of the personal style of McGraw, who up until the 1950s was most people's idea of The Baseball Manager...

...He played harder, and hit better, .349 (as opposed to his career .284), for John McGraw than for anybody else, and won two games of the 1923 World Series with home runs...

...Only he, it might be said, knew what he was doing...

...In bondage she had found freedom, and in life's uncertainty she found security...

...It was not a bad way to spend a life...

...Creamer said he wanted to "go beyond the gentle inaccuracies and omissions" of earlier accounts, and "present all the facts and myths, the statistical details and personal exuberance, the obvious and subtle things" behind the legend...

...In Stengel he does the same for Charles Dillon Stengel...

...And then I was no doubt discharged by baseball, in which I had to go back to the minor leagues as a manager...

...His hand, contorted by a dreaminspired reflex, suddenly looks to her to be "vile, apelike...

...It further analyzes what lessons (if any) this experience as now perceived should signal to U.S...

...The following morning begins "her life of duplicity, of resignation, and of a lowly, delicate diplomacy...

...None won more fame, or did it with more gusto, than the old Case...

...And it is from the lips of little Garcin, naked in her beaded-net pants, that a childish little song, keeping time with her busy needle, involuntarily finds its way...

...His biggest break, "the most rewarding part of his life," according to Mr...

...We'd have clubhouse meetings that would last an hour, an hour and a half, and he'd talk the whole time," recalled shortstop Phil Rizzuto...

...In Stengel we have both...

...Repugnance, and the toil required to conceal it, replace permanently a much more effortless, much shorter-lived ardor...

...Colette could look unflinchingly at marriage, admit its nightmarishness, fail at it twice, and eventually find herself a perfect mate...

...These are the marks of true maturity and selfassuredness, the things that make of a scandalous woman, a grande dame...

...Chairman of NEH from 1971 until 1977, ~onald Berman offers a unique"insider's view" of the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that resulted in a five-fold increase in Federal funding for NEH during his tenure as Chairman...

...He blew kisses to booing crowds...

...Needless to say, the New York sportswriters, the largest such batch, ate it up, and made the out-of-town papers do so, too...

...I learned more from McGraw than anybody," he once said...

...3.50 + $1 postage and handling from: Manhattan lns tute for Policy Research 20 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018 and biography writing, said that a wellwritten life was almost as rare as a well-spent one...

...Creamer writes, with more than a hint of melodrama, "Stengel had spent almost 40 years in baseball, and it was as though he had done nothing...

...And on and on he rambled, giving a history of baseball in the twentieth century in 45 minutes o f Stengelese, without notes...

...He once said, "There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them...

...She could endure her bad reputation, and enjoy the company of the disreputable, for she knew neither she nor they deserved censure...

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...I had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it is a game of skill...

...She could see in her memory a young man in his shirttails, bare feet on a mosaic bathroom floor, standing in front of an absolutely astounded young woman...

...Such was the apprenticeship of Casey Stengel...

...This half hour is theirs...

...Author Creamer brushes such sore losers aside: "When Casey had the players to work with, as he had with the Yankees, he held them to a high level of performance for a dozen years...

...His crowning achievement was his testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in July 1958, chaired by Sen...

...Through his candid and intimate account, he provides not only a thorough critique of the intertwining of culture and politics in the United States, but a revealing look at the internal workings of the federal government as well...

...He invented The Baseball Manager...

...Although not particularly remarkable, it will be of inestimable value to those who only remember Stengel for his managerial and comic genius, as well as those who remember the ancient mariner when he mugged for the cameras and talked endlessly about his Metsies...

...Her haven was her "little ground-floor room" with its "scraps of salvaged f u r n i t u r e . . , b o o k s . . . [and] the smell of green leaves that sometimes drifted in from the Bois...

...Indeed, he went on to tie McGraw's record ten pennants, and surpassed his three 44 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1984 world titles...

...He still had to prove himself...

...biography of the slugger, Mr...

...After this, he invented the New York Mets, an example, if there ever was one, of a man's reach exceeding his grasp...

...The theater dressing room-peopled with the ill-bred, the wayward, and the disreputable--becomes during intermission a sewing circle: Off fly bicolored tights and Neapolitan skirts, to be replaced by spongy dressing gowns or cotton kimonos, mottled with the stains of cosmetics...

...To keep a team playing that well for that long a time is more than luck...

...Her favorite companion, of "good and bad moments," was a tabby cat...

...The strange truth is that, even in his playing days, the old Case was widely perceived as, well, old, the Old Perfesser of legend...

...His biggest came in 1949, when he was named manager of the perennial powerhouse New York Yankees, a move which left the press, the public, and even the team dumbfounded...

...This important book reflects the edited version of the conference proceedings...

...Estes Kefauver...

...Colette saw in those who outraged society her same wholesome, homely virtues...

...Born in 1890 in Kansas City, Casey broke into the major leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1914, and had enough confidence in his own talent to renegotiate his contracts on a regular basis...

...This 52-page directory summarizes current research in 24 public policy areas, and lists over 250 economists available as sources on economic issues...

...Too happy to sleep," the bride lies awake and gazes fondly on her slumbering husband...

...There were naysayers--there always are--who declared that anyone could have made those Yankee teams finish in the money...

...Robert Creamer, who has been a writer and editor of Sports Illustrated since it started in 1954, and who knows something about baseball and sportswriting, here places perhaps a bit too much emphasis on the meaning behind Stengelese, which was used for comic effect or to snow an audience, and too little on the vast power of the New York Sportswriters, who made the old Case everybody's idea of The Baseball Manager--with a great deal of help from Stengel...

...There were other managers in the game longer, and there were managers of more illustrious teams, and there were managers with better winning percentages, but you never hear about them, and few people outside the game and its chroniclers recognize their names...

...Her disgust proves far more substantial than the diaphanous adulation she had felt before...

...However " interim " a leader Chernenko may turn out to be, neither the problems o f the " real " succession, nor the problems o f the Soviet economy can be swept under the carpet...

...We also have an extended analysis o f the problem of Soviet economic reform which includes a sensational Soviet document - the leaked Novosibirsk Report...

...He also learned "that you not only have to have the players, you have to know how to handle them, to keep them motivated...

...He had more style than most major league managers, and more press...

...But there was more to Casey's act...

...it would seem that it is " socialist funerealism " that prevails in Soviet life...

...But what he learned while sitting on the bench more than outweighed whatever stats he garnered in the twilight of his career...

...experience in the Vietnam War gathered for two days at the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars...

...Creamer, came in 1921 when he was traded to the famed New York Giants...

...They suddenly fall silent, pacified by some unknown spell . . . . In spite of their gaping wraps, of their high-pitched knees, of the insolent rouge still blossoming on their cheeks, they have the chaste attitude and bent backs of sedate seamstresses...