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Page 20 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, September 15,1977 Hall of Famer Greenburg revels in the good life By Murray Olderman BEVERLY HILLS. Calif - (NEA) — Henry Benjamin Greenberg, who has a deep mulberry tan that glistens in the southern California sun. hasn't worn socks on his feet for three months — deck shoes or white Guccis are enough He hasn't tied a cravat around his neck for nine months — it wouldn't go with the rainbow-hued shirt. It’s not that Henry can t af ford socks or a tie. It’s a matter of lifestyle in this little enclave of calculated casualness, surrounded by the bustle of greater Los Angeles. Hank Greenberg, better identified as a man whose likeness is in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. N Y . for hitting home runs, came to live in the West three years ago. His daily routine reflects a drastic change from his previous life in a brownstone on East 70th Street in Manhattan. “This is an oasis away from the turbulent world,” reflects Hank, sipping from a tall tanker of iced tea and honey, poolside at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club “You can’t beat the weather Life is pleasant Right here in Beverly Hills, it’s so pleasant you’re only aware on TV there are other things going on out there.” Like looting, rape, murder and assorted violence. Hank is not oblivious to them. He’s a product of the inner city, rais ed on the streets of the Bronx. But as baseball would take an ensuing generation of blacks out of the ghetto, in special in stances, so did Hank get out. He became the first great Jewish superstar ball player — in Detroit But New York always drew him back until his wife, Mary Jo, who once acted in the movies for Howard Hughes, persuaded him to move westward ‘‘The last time I was in New York, ’’ he says, “I stayed GOODE NICHOLS Furniture Co. 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At 11:30 am., he drives down to his stockbroker’s office in Century City, between Santa Monica and Olympic Boulevards, to catch the clos ing of the markets and see how much richer or poorer he is that day. For the last 15 years, or since he got out of baseball as co-owner with Bill Veeck of the Chicago White Sox, Hank has played the stock market for a living In New York, he used to have a ticker tape in his home. ‘ The disadvantage in being here,” he says, “is that you’re not close to the action. In New York, you had contacts on the floor. If you wanted to make a move, you did it right then. Here you buy a stock and sit on it. ‘‘l miss the rumors. If you're playing this game, you want the edge ” Once, on a Friday, Hank heard through a lawyer friend that Penn Central was going under. It sounded incredible, but Hank, heavily invested, unloaded 5,000 shares im mediately, On Monday, they would have been worthless — Penn Central had declared bankruptcy. “My wife, ” he says, “got caught with a thousand She still has ’em." By 1 p.m. every day, Hank is at the club for lunch, then some brisk tennis for a couple of hours. Walter Matthau sits around kibitzing with him. Hank moves well for an old man — he's 66 — and plays a sly brand of tennis. He creams a younger writer. By 5:30, he is home for a cocktail and early dinner, or out to some nearby restaurant with friends, followed by a night in front of the television set to maintain contact with the outside world. “I read a lot,” says Hank. If it sounds boring, he can live with it He's no longer looking for action. “We live an isolated life,” he says. "When I used to come out here from OF HIS NEW HOME in Beverly Hills, Greenberg says: ‘‘This is an oasis away from the turbulent world. Right here, life is so pleasant you’re only aware on TV there are other things going on out there.” New York, I would be at Chasen's three or four times a week I haven't been there in three years.” Hank would rather sit around and reminisce. He and Joe DiMaggio were once in New York for an old-timer’s game Hank, then courting Mary Jo, was flying out to Los Angeles to meet her. “I think Marilyn (Monroe i and I are getting back together again.” confided DiMag. “First I've got to go to San Francisco. Why don’t we double-date when I get down to LA?” Sure, nodded Hank. He flew out to Los Angeles as schedul ed, picked up a newspaper in the airport and a headline screamed at him: “Monroe New books The following new books have been added to the collection of the Flint River Regional Library: HUMOR: “Going Nuts in Brazil With Jack Douglas” by Jack Douglas—one of America’s favorite funnymen, his long-suffering wife, Reiko, and their 2 sons blunder ever onward in their search for the perfect place to live. “Wasp, Commits Suicide!" “I know what it’s like to carry a torch," muses Hank "When my first wife left me after 13 years, it took me a year to get over it. You're the big athlete. You can’t believe anyone would ever do that to you." But now general content ment suffuses him. He has his tennis and his dividends. And every day in this oasis comes up sunny. “I think,” says Hank, “this’ll put five years on my life." And spare him the aggrava tion of looking for a lost mate for a lone sock after Mary Jo does the laundry. Where Is Thy Sting” by Florence King—a witty, satiric look at that endangered species, the American White Anglo- Saxon Protestant, by the author of “Southern Ladies and Gentlemen”. “The Broken Spoke” by Edward Gorey— Gorey’s unique sense of humor attacks the bicycle and cyclist. OCCULT: “First Practical Pyramid Book: Free energy for beauty, health, gardening, food dehydration and meditation” by Norman Stark—provides in structions and a pattern for building a pyramid, presents Kirlian photographs showing the aura of energy radiating from pyramids, and demon strates the use of pyramid power in daily life. “Suzanne White’s Book of Chinese Chance: What the Oriental Zodiac can tell you about yourself and your future” by Suzanne White—the first complete book of the ancient art of Chinese Astrology. FICTION: “Tango Novem ber” by John Howlett—the crash of an American-built, British registered jet liner brings American, British, and Italian investigators to Sicily, where each contends with his own, and the others’ misgivings and with a young Sicilian reporter’s unofficial investigation. “The Lucifer Wine” by Irma Walker questions about her aban donment at 6 by her mother and a sinsiter figure who haunts her nightmares lead Carna, a beautiful twenty-one-year-old Basque, to Guernica in California where she accepts a job at a winery. “Winds of Love” by Agnes Sligh Turn bull—the absorbing story of a woman facing and surviving the crisis of a broken marriage. Fake jewelry WASHINGTON (AP) - An Arizona chemist has invented a test to determine the authentic ity Os turquoise stones used pri marily in American Indian jew elry pieces. Dr. Michael Parsons of Ari zona State University at Tempe says about half of the hundreds of stones he has analyzed turned out to be fakes or low grade stones of little value. Parsons’ technique involves bathing the stones in a pow erful electron beam, stirring up radiation which is analyzed by a computer. He says every kind of stone has a chemical make up as distinctive as a finger print. Much of the jewelry sold as authentic American Indian handicraft is made of low-grade stones dyed and treated to look like good gems, chunks of col ored glass or tiny chips of good turquoise glued carefully to gether to look like a single gem, according to Parsons. Corn crop keeps teenagers busy By MARGY McCAY Associated Press Writer TAMA COUNTY, lowa (AP)—As sure as there’s a corn crop in lowa, thousands of the state’s teen-agers have summer jobs. 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We get $2.30 an hour. “It’s not so bad if there are people you know on your ma chine, ’cause you can sing and y talk.” Detasseling machines are strange contraptions with plat forms to carry 10 people. “You work no matter what the weather,” said Kathy Som merfelt, 15, also of Waterloo. “On rainy days, you wear rain coats — actually they look more like big garbage bags with holes for your arms anc head.” In addition to rain, detasse lers have to put up with vari ations in temperatures. “You start out in the morning with pants on and shorts under neath and halter tops wits shirts,” said Miss Sominerfelt “Then you strip as the day gets warmer.” The detasseling crews, with about 45 persons on each crew, are segregated by sex. “That way we avoid any trouble and don’t waste time,” said Strayer.
