Word: clipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impeccable family had always confined its patronage to the National League. Single instance of backsliding: "The time that Wheaties was running a most-popular-player contest. Mother [the late Mrs. Payne Whitney] called the cook and asked her please to buy lots of Wheaties for the children and to clip the box tops so she could vote for Joe DiMaggio...
Robinson learned his lesson well. He began hitting at a furious clip, ranked among National League leaders in home runs and runs batted in for most of the season. Robinson slumped badly at the plate in the final weeks (World Series batting average: .200), but he still wound up hitting .323, and his timely slugging helped Cincinnati win its first pennant in 21 years. Last week, polling 15 out of 16 votes, he won the National League's Most Valuable Player award...
...Gets Slapped, based on the play by Leonid Andreyev. He wrote The Crucible in one year, in the study of his 14-room house in Nyack, N.Y., and just finished in time. As curtain time approached, he was feeding the score to the singers five pages at a clip. The time is ripe for good opera, Ward believes, but he deplores the tendency-exemplified in Alban Berg's Wozzeck-to shift the dramatic emphasis from singers to orchestra. "Everything must happen in the voice," says Ward. "Opera belongs on the stage, not in the orchestra...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A film-clip biography of Al Smith...
...pound senior by the name of Tom Vasell quarterbacking their wing T offense. He's the guy who completed 16 passes for 219 yards against Harvard last year to set the Ivy League record for completions in a single game. This year, he's been throwing at a near.600 clip with 21 completions out of 25 attempts for 263 yards and a touchdown...