The masterminds of baseball's American League put their masterminds together in Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel, decided to award their Washington, D.C. franchise to none other than retired Air Force General Elwood Richard ("Pete") Quesada, 56, now Federal Aviation Administrator. Longtime Baseball Fan Quesada must quit his Government job to organize the club, which will fill the vacancy left when the unwinning Senators team moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul last month. Estimated cost of the franchise: $3,500,000. Says Quesada: "I don't have that, but I've got backers who do."
Sir Winston Churchill, 85, half-American but the most English of Englishmen, again seemed indestructible. He...
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