Word: cy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drama remains doggedly minor because Writer-Director Cy Endfield too often concentrates on the man-womanman conflict, which is sexier but not so interesting finally as the elemental battle for survival. In Actor Whitman's display of beefcake villainy, muscles are defined more clearly than motivation or character. The threat of death from heat and starvation seems remote when Susannah lazes by a fresh-water pool while Whitman strides forth fully armed, bagging big and small game with reassuring regularity. Kalahari is most effective when it shows men pushed to the last extremity, as in the brutal spectacle...
...Sandy Koufax by 47 points in the balloting among baseball writers; at Boston. Mays batted .317, hit 52 homers and drove in 112 runs for the second-place San Francisco Giants. Koufax, who hurled the Dodgers to the pennant and victory in the World Series, had already won the Cy Young award as the major leagues' best pitcher; two sportswriters left him off their ballots entirely, apparently deciding that he had received enough recognition...
...record and moved into a tie (360 victories) with Kid Nichols as the sixth most successful pitcher in baseball history. Now he wanted to overtake Jim Galvin at 365 and then to pass Christy Mathewson and Grover Cleveland Alexander (both 373), leaving only Walter Johnson (416) and Cy Young (511) ahead of him as the record holders...
...Angeles has Dean Chance, and that's about all. Chance won the Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in baseball last year. He won 20 and lost 9 with the mediocre Angels and had a magnificent 1.65 ERA. With a better team he could win 30, but with some assistance from pitchers Ken McBride and Fred Newman might carry the Angels as high as fifth...
...that he was a callous killer is no less deluded than Patton's own self-image. He absolutely believed that he was the "reincarnation" of an archetypal fighting man wHo had once "battled for fresh mammoth," had fought in a phalanx against Cyrus the Persian, on Crécy's field in the Hundred Years' War, in all the great campaigns since...