Word: award
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came in the first inning, when San Francisco's Willie Mays singled, went to second on a muffed pick-off attempt, to third on a wild pitch, and home on a double play. That unearned run gave the National League the game and Mays the Most Valuable Player award...
...award might better have been divvied up among the twelve pitchers. If the game signified anything, it was that baseball has become a pitcher's preserve. Going into the All-Star break, only twelve batters in both leagues were above the .300 mark, and only two of them-Pittsburgh's Matty Alou (.344) and Cincinnati's Pete Rose (.329)-were hitting over .320. Atlanta's Henry Aaron, a lifetime .316 hitter, is currently batting .248; Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente, a four-time batting champion, is chopping at .252. Six National League and 13 American League...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.).* "I Want to Live!, Susan Hayward's Academy Award-winning performance as a girl who, they said, murdered in hot blood. Death-cell drama based on a factual California murder case...
...nothing else, friend Glassen clearly won the Loudmouth of the Week Award. I might even burn my N.R.A membership card...
...After all the nudity and everything else, I felt strongly about the complete opposite-propriety and prudence," slyly insists the 34-year-old designer, who likes to point out that he has belonged to the Church of England since his London boyhood. Though Chicago Daily News Columnist Virginia Kay awarded him "the Shockingly Bad Taste Award of the Year, Decade and Century," teenagers across the country latched onto the dresses by the rackful. Commented Monsignor Joseph T.V. Snee, who oversees all 8,000 Catholic nuns in the Archdiocese of New York: "If the women of our times have now decided...