Word: goetz
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Died. Larry Goetz, 66, granite-jawed National League baseball umpire (1935-57) who rarely lost a rhubarb by following his dictum. "You can't be a good guy and be a good umpire"; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. The old arbiter's rarest treat was once ejecting former Brooklyn Manager Leo Durocher before the game even began. Presenting his lineup, Durocher snarled: "What I said yesterday still goes." Replied Goetz: "And what I said yesterday still goes, too. Yer out of the game...
...students, Weil and Peter C. Gold-mark '62, talked to James E. Good-by '51, foreign affairs officer of the United States disarmament Administration, Edmond Gullion, acting deputy director of the Administration, and Elizabeth Goetz, staff assistant of the Senate Subcommittee on Disarmament...
Song Without End (William Goetz; Columbia) records two noteworthy advances over Hollywood's customary great-musician gassers. The first must have caused mutterings in Beverly Hills: the film, although it concerns Franz Liszt, is not called The Franz Liszt Story. The second is that Dirk Bogarde, who plays the 19th century pianist-composer, has learned to waggle his fingers in convincing imitation of a virtuoso in full cadenza. The innovation is not negligible; it eliminates that hoary sham in which the cameraman shoots from behind the piano while the actor at the keyboard moves his arms up and down...
...Mountain Road (William Goetz; Columbia) allows James Stewart, as a U.S. Army major*; wrestling with his first command, to explore the proposition that power not only corrupts, but embarrasses, confuses and dismays. The casting is logical, since durable Actor Stewart has grown wealthy by relentlessly registering embarrassment, confusion and dismay on the screen. Major Stewart's predicament in the film is more serious than usual. It is 1944, his seven-man demolition team is the last garrison of an airfield in southeast China, and the Japanese are advancing 40 miles away. Radioed orders pass the buck; the major...