Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Face is equally impressive against all National League teams-even the heavy-hitting Milwaukee Braves. Hank Aaron has had only two hits in two years off Face. Says Aaron: "He's one of the most underrated pitchers in the big leagues. You wouldn't think much of him because of his size, but he's a dandy...
Still pushing for further progress, Mike DeBakey gets less than five hours sleep a night, rises at 4:30 to work on reports before going to surgery at 7:30, has taken off only two weekends (to hunt deer) in four years. Lean, slightly stooped and with big, penetrating dark eyes, he is so miserly of time that he never drives when he can fly, never walks when he can drive -even the one block from medical school to hospital...
Hired part time, Bach crammed a tiny photo lab into the auditorium dressing room. Soon "Bach's Boys" were rushing about, shoving big black boxes in students' faces and yelling, "Hold it!" Other teachers were shocked at Bach's brand of pedagogy: he encouraged playing hooky on sunny days-with a camera. "Go get the picture," he would say. Bach badgered officials into buying extra film, gave his budding photographers more than most daily newspapers allow their regulars. He ceaselessly sent his boys to football and basketball games to get realistic pictures (blur was just fine...
...pieces is pretty, I smash it-if I have the courage." Few of the 27 pieces (at $800 to $6,075)in last week's exhibition failed to pass César's own standards of brutality and ugliness. Homage to Brancusi is a big iron egg covered with spikes. The Duchess is equipped with a gizzard made of welded bolts, rods and screws...
...striking beauty. As a Chinese girl on TV (Schlitz Playhouse), an Italian girl in To Hell and Back, a neurotic mulatto in Imitation of Life, she began her multicolored career as one of the most versatile young actresses in town. Her latest picture: Walt Disney's The Big Fisherman, in which she again plays an exotic part-a young Judean girl...