Loose Lip

After calling in sportswriters to hear his blast against "blind" National League umpires, the New York Giants' hot-tempered Manager Leo ("The Lip") Durocher had second thoughts. Facing suspension for his cries of outrage, he called in the sportswriters again, explained that he was wrong and that he had "popped off too much." Next day the New York Daily News found in the incident a journalistic moral: "The Lip . . . did make an honest pullback . . . This . . . was a forthright apology. It was in refreshing contrast to the all too frequent politician who uses the 'I was misquoted' technique. You know how that works. Reporters accurately report and newspapers faithfully print something the guy says. He thinks better of it, or oftener, gets scared. Instead of acting the man, he turns around and says the reporters and press lied about what he said. He is the only liar in the case. We hope a lot of politicians will carefully note and long remember The Lip's frankness--and smartness--on [this] occasion. It can profit them greatly."

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