Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thanks to a tight script, sharp direction, and neat performances by the biggest cast of big-name players ever cornered for a quickie. Among those present: Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney. Keenan Wynn, Joseph Schildkraut. Dan O'Herlihy, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors, Mickey Shaughnessy. William Demarest and David (Richard Diamond) Janssen...
...least appreciated and the loneliest in organized sport. Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court justice, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. Before each game, he must perform such lackey's chores as "policing" the diamond and rubbing the gloss off 60 new baseballs with specially aged New Jersey creek mud that costs $12.50 a can. He must know by heart all 550 regulations in the baseball rule book. He must not only keep high-strung athletes from beating one another up, but prohibit fraternizing between...
...terms. But last week the Met's big black stage door on 40th Street was locked tight again. This time the Met insisted that its gesture was not mere negotiating histrionics, and that it would take a near miracle to open the black stage door-or the Diamond Horseshoe-again for opera until...
Last week, stepping in to umpire Mantle's off-diamond performance, the Federal Trade Commission coldly advised the Yankee slugger to stop endorsing one product he admittedly does not consume: the milk marketed by Mid-West Creamery Co., Inc. of Ponca City, Okla.-which got the rights to Mantle's name from a dairy association that has him under contract. Well aware of the dangers of arguing with the ump, Oklahoma-born Mantle promptly agreed...
...great a moralist as he was an immoralist. Wilde saw life as a fatality, and many of his fables end tragically. None can be summarized or quoted out of context, for they are mosaics into which Wilde put the man-hours that it takes to polish a diamond...