Word: babes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the tables packed with babling undergraduates, all of them waving their arms back and forth energetically. Over the monstrous babble of the dining hall separate phrases hit his car--"Marshall's report in '46 proved. . . Any senator, and I don't care what party, who takes. . . Just a babe in the wood, I tell you, a babe in the woods. . . And do you know what they would do with our Power Commission. . . Twenty years, and I don't care which party, is too long...
Died. Hubert B. ("Dutch") Leonard,* 60, southpaw pitcher who fireballed his way to fame in the American League (1913-25), later made a fortune as a California grape-grower; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Fresno. In 1914, on the pitching staff of the Boston Red Sox (which also included Babe Ruth), he had his best season, winning 19 games and losing five, for an average of 1.01earned runs a game. After helping Boston to world championships in 1915 and 1916, he quit baseball in 1925, retired to his Fresno ranch, where he could sit in any room...
Stars in the Air (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). The Babe Ruth Story, with Ward Bond, William Frawley...
...direction, the sprightly lines of Authors Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, and the comic capering of Old Hands Hepburn and Tracy. Aldo Ray is amusing as a dumb boxer with a foghorn voice. There is a pungent gallery of prognathous fictional sports characters, while such real sports personalities as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Gussie Moran, Donald Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker and Betty Hicks show up in person...
...pronounced stutter and an utter inability to feel anything mildly. As a rising artist back in the '30s, he nursed a great passion for contemporary heroes. He did powerful portrait busts of some of the men around F.D.R.-Henry Wallace, Rex Tugwell, General Hugh Johnson-and modeled Babe Ruth into an eight-foot giant with the air of an arrogant Hercules. Critics admired his work, but then something happened and Nakian all but disappeared...