Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Someone to Cheer. Last spring, after three years in the minors, Wally showed up at the Cardinal camp in St. Petersburg, Fla., fresh from a winter of baseball in Maracaibo, Venezuela, his batting eye sharp. Manager Stanky was so impressed that he never thought of sending Wally back to the minors. But taking Slaughter's place was a tough spot. Wally kept badgering old hands like Musial and Schoendienst for advice. In the field, he made few mistakes. At the plate, he started belting out base hits steadily. His current average: .331. "Here it is August," says Second Baseman...
...best that can be said for most children's books is that they sell well-a sturdy 11% of the total U.S. book trade. Largely churned out by conscientious hacks, the bulk of the kiddie books piles mountains of moral lessons on molehills of fun. Cause for cheer has come in recent months. With an eye on relaxation as well as royalties, some well-established novelists and poets have sortied from their usual literary habitat and invaded the children's book field with happy results. Some of the happiest...
...Pair of Tin Legs. Bader's first try on a pair of flexible-jointed legs was discouraging. At the R.A.F. hospital, he was greeted with gruesome good cheer: "Long John's got his ruddy undercarriage back." But as they watched him learn to walk-lurching, stumbling, falling, refusing help, getting up, falling again-the affectionate kidding stopped, turned to silent encouragement. Soon Bader was turning somersaults, playing squash and golf (he now has a handicap of 4), and flying a plane. Once he went dancing with a girl he liked very much, and fell in her presence...
...added a strikingly modern, $1,500,000 wing. But for generations the student favorite at the gallery has been a thoughtful, kind-looking lady who clutches a rabbit to her velvet bosom. The painting is attributed to Piero di Cosimo, and beautifully combines Piero's relaxed good cheer with the dressy formalism of his native Florence...
...Pictures Living It Up (Paramount) is a screen version of Hazel Flagg, the Broadway musical, which was in turn a retuning of filmdom's famous Bronx cheer for Manhattan, Nothing Sacred (1937) Jerry Lewis now plays Carole Lombard's movie part. Alas, Carole was prettier. She was also funnier. And Janet Leigh, playing the old Fredric March part, adds body to the fun but no flavor. Somewhere along the production line the rasp has been strained out of the raspberry, but what's left is still the pleasantest session with Jerry Lewis and Partner Dean Martin...