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Playerab r h ba po a e fa rbl Foynes, of 12 4 4 .250 4 0 0 1.000 2 Caulfield, 1b 11 0 1 .090 30 1 0 1.000 2 White, ss 13 1 5 .385 2 7 1 .900 1 Mofile, of 8 1 1 .125 4 0 0 1.000 0 Crosby,c 10 4 2 .200 21 3 4 .857 0 Walsh, of 7 0 2 .286 1 0 0 1.000 1 Cavanaugh, 2b 6 1 1 .167 8 6 0 1.000 0 Huntington,3b 10 0 5 .500 1 7 2 .800 4 Akillian...
Behind the fair's gaudy façade, the Leipziger's life was as harsh and drab as ever. The unskilled laborer earned 200 Ostmarks a month, worth just $10 in a free market. In the nationalized stores, a pound of butter cost 30 marks, a pair of shoes 70. "We all know where these fine goods in the fair are going," said one old man. "To Russia, to the 'people's democracies.' Wir krepieren-we are dying a slow death...
...Wells' modern English ballets-with choreography by De Valois, Helpmann and Frederick Ashton. Among the best of these were De Valois' animated chess game, Checkmate, her Rake's Progress (after Hogarth's famous drawing sequence) and Ashton's gay Wedding Bouquet and impish Façade (to music by William Walton). They were performed with a brittle wit and a steely stylishness...
...Madame Alda (now 66) recalls it, Caruso said, "Non fa niènte. You just stand still and move your lips and I'll sing it for you." With his back to the audience, he did just that. Says Alda: "I felt like sitting up in my bed and joining in the applause...
...faces would crowd to take its place and the American public would scarcely know the difference. For the model is more than an individual; she has become a type and an inevitable part of the American scene. She is everywhere; she smiles down from mountains and from steely skyscraper façades, from billboards and from the most exclusive bars. She is no longer an enticing stranger; the American is fond of her, sometimes irritated by her, but he takes her for granted and looks for her, even when he has no intention of buying what she is selling...