Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people I don't like." As Chicagoans look on with mixed fascination and disgust, he proceeds to poke at the privacy and the professional talents of well-known figures in the popular-music industry, whether they are guests on the show or not. Some typical Faye autopsies: Eddie Fisher "sings with as much animation as a dead fish"; Elvis Presley is "a bouncing orangutan, a musical degenerate"; Tab Hunter's "squeak is a travesty, a horror." Of his own sister. Cafe Singer Frances Faye, he cracked: "She's really not my sister; she's my father...
Then, either senior Dick Fisher or junior Ken Hathaway in left, junior Walt Stahura in center, senior Matt Botsford in right, senior Phil Haughey catching, and Repetto on the mound...
Harvard scored first, as Dick Fisher singled in the second, advanced on an incompetent pick-off attempt and a fielder's choice, and came home on a double steal as Matt Botsford took second...
Died. Arthur Fisher Bentley, 86, philosopher, political scientist, author (The Process of Government), collaborator with the late John Dewey on Knowing and the Known; in Paoli...
Oddly enough, the bench supplied some of the best batting averages. Utility outfielder Dick Fisher only got a crack at the horsehide 20 times, but lashed out seven hits for a .350 average. All his blows were singles. Kent Hathaway came up late in the season to fill a hole on the varsity caused by injuries and batted...