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After 23 years as a manager with five major-league clubs (including the Tigers, Phillies, Red Sox and Yankees), bulb-nosed, sun-scarred Bucky Harris, 53, has mellowed. As the Senators' fiery, hardhitting second baseman and one of the best in the majors, he once deliberately stomped his spiked shoe on Lou Gehrig's foot to make him drop a throw. As a manager who has gone through some soul-searing troubles (e.g., he was fired from the Yankees after finishing third in 1948) he has developed into a fatherly, genial boss. But with untalented discards and untried...
Since rats are nocturnal and deeply suspicious of humans, they had to be conditioned to movie-acting. First, they were put in a small enclosure lit by a 200-watt electric bulb. When they were used to the glaring light, they were exposed to human voices and camera noises blared from a loudspeaker...
Every day at Charlie Binaggio's First District Democratic Club on Truman Road in Kansas City, boon seekers ran a gauntlet of stony-faced hoodlums, sought their favors of the gimlet-eyed man sitting beneath the bare light bulb behind the bare desk. Charlie was a political big-shot in Jackson County, President Truman's home county. He had 30,000 votes in his pocket. He boasted that he controlled 40 state legislators, that he had elected Governor Forrest Smith. But Charlie Binaggio, who looked deceptively like a mild and prosperous chiropodist, made a mistake which...
...summer with her sister Stella in New Orleans. She is shocked at the meanness of Stella's home, and the vulgarity of Stella's Polish husband. She calls herself a gentlewoman, and passes as one. Slowly, however, her pretence is discovered. In the glare of a naked electric light bulb, Blanche DuBois is forced to admit that she does not tell the truth, "but what ought to be the truth...
Died. Sidney Arthur ("Sid") Field, 45, bulb-nosed British comic who soared to fame in wartime revues (Strike a New Note, Strike It Again); in Richmond, Surrey. Disdaining the fast gag, Field mixed the pathetic and the preposterous into an art reminiscent of Chaplin's, but with a slapdash gusto...