Word: clown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Phyllis Diller, 48, nightclub and TV clown; and Warde Donovan, 49, sometime actor; both for the second time, one month after Phyllis divorced Sherwood ("Fang") Diller, unseen straight man of her comedy routines; in Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...these two novellas Germany's Heinrich Böll (The Clown), like a brain surgeon performing an exploratory operation, opens up two representative Germans of the war generation: one a merchant, one a soldier. Without comment he inspects the devastation within them. Without comment he sews them up again. Diagnosis: something is rotten in the State of Germany...
...bandy legged minor-league outfielder 55 years ago, somebody or other has been suggesting that baseball could get along fine without Casey Stengel's services. During his playing days, in Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Boston, Philadelphia and New York, he was variously known as "Billiard Ball Stengel" and "Casey the Clown" for 1) his hardheadedness in doing things his way, and 2) his penchant for practical jokes. There was the time, for instance, when he tipped his cap to the crowd, and out flew a sparrow. Such antics made it easy to forget the fact that his lifetime batting average over...
...occur to the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves-whom Casey managed for nine years without ever getting out of the second division. The Dodgers finally paid him for a whole season not to manage. Then in 1949, Stengel took over the New York Yankees- and the clown became the "Old Perfesser." In twelve years he won ten American League pennants (a record) and seven World Series (another record). Critics insisted that anybody could win with the Yankees. But was that it? "I was just a kid shortstop, 19 years old," says Mickey Mantle, "and Stengel made me into...
...COUNT THE WAYS, by Peter De Vries. Another painfully funny novel, this one about a Polish piano mover in the Midwest, by a writer who can play the clown and Hamlet...