Word: casey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first powered flight, and it was celebrated by two Americans, first Scott Crossfield, flying at 1,327 m.p.h., then the Air Force's Major "Chuck" Yeager, ripping through the substratosphere at more than 1,600 m.p.h., 2½ times the speed of sound. In sport, Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees became baseball's first manager to win five consecutive World Series championships. Native Dancer, a big grey horse with the legs of a champion and the inbred ham of a Barrymore. teamed with TV to make horse-racing fans out of millions who did not know...
...DERBYSHIRE Salt Lake City Sir: . . . Casey - Stengel, that...
DUDLEY NICHOLS Los Angeles Sir: . . . The article . . . was written with organ-toned whimsy ... I resent . . . being told that Anna Christie is one of Eugene O'Neill's "worst" plays, and I resent being told that O'Neill ranks just below Shaw and O'Casey as a 20th century dramatist ... I am not privy to your sources . . . but I am of the opinion that neither you nor anyone else is in a position just yet to say which of Eugene O'Neill's plays are the "worst...
...doubt about the Man of the Year-it's Casey Stengel. IRVING M. RACHLIS Roxbury, Mass...
...never cheated with his evidence, and his evidence came from the secret places of the heart. Though he manhandled the English language, recalling Dreiser's powerful clumsiness, he never consciously wrote a shoddy line. On the 20th century stage, so far, only Shaw and Sean O'Casey outrank him. He failed in his ultimate goal, to go beyond the tree line of tragedy and reach the highest, noblest peaks. But few others in his day have tried to climb so high...