Word: babes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Babe Ruth Story (Allied Artists] is a gawking tribute to a man who deserves better. From the time the grownup Bambino (William Bendix) leaves the shelter of Brother Matthias' (Charles Bickford) industrial school and enters professional baseball, he shambles along such an interminable frieze of sobbing boys, dying dogs and disabled children (to a final, horribly protracted sickbed scene in a hospital) that the real events of Ruth's life are almost entirely crowded out. Sportwriter Sam Levene and Ruth's screen wife Claire Trevor do their level best to make up for this hokum; but even...
Americans had done jobs as marvelous as the Berlin air lift before. Take the time Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox dug the St. Lawrence River in three weeks. When Billy Pilgrim tried to make it tough for Babe by wetting and stretching the buckskin ropes attached to the scoop shovel, Babe just sat down until the sun came out and dried the ropes. As they dried they shrank, and pulled that scoop for miles & miles up to Babe. And there was the St. Lawrence, practically...
...lift was not that easy, but it had the genuine Bunyanesque flavor. The boasting and the wry understatement were as American as the fabulous Babe...
...Billy Pilgrim had read that, he might not have spent so much time thinking up those nasty, complicated tricks to play on Paul and his Blue-Ox, Babe...
...Satchel once pitched a no-hitter in Pittsburgh, drove all night to Chicago, shut out another team in twelve innings next day. Pitching for the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1942 Negro World Series, Showoff Satchel purposely passed a man to get Catcher Josh Gibson (Negro baseball's Babe Ruth) at bat, then forced him to send...