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Thus, with the poetic license of storytellers through the ages, TV Comedian Steve Allen updated the Grimm fairy tale in jazzdom's Down Beat magazine last spring. It was intended only as a private joke for bopsters, told in the latest Tin Pan Alley argot, where "cool" means good, "crazy" means wonderful and anything that is really tops is simply called "the most." But the tale quickly reached a larger public when Manhattan Disk Jockey Al "Jazzbo" Collins read it over the air, then recorded it for Brunswick. The record has sold a reported 200,000 copies to become...
...largest bowl [of soup] was very hot, the next bowl was very cool and the littlest bowl was just right. Naturally she chose the cool bowl." Meanwhile Jazzbo had switched over to Capitol Records, picked up a new scriptwriter (Douglas Jones), and last week released his second pair of "Grimm Fairy Tales for Hip Kids": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack, on first seeing the beanstalk: "Man, what crazy asparagus...
Young & Old Pros. Wherever he goes, Manager Charlie Grimm is asked a standard question: "What in the world happened to your team?" "jolly Cholly" grins happily and gives a standard answer; "The farm system is paying off-Sure, the enthusiasm of the Milwaukee fans has been a big help. But you don't win ball games just on enthusiasm in the stands...
Milwaukee has been winning games for Grimm by performance on the field, notably, the batting and fielding performances of three eye-catching youngsters, Sophomore Third Baseman Ed Mathews, 21, Rookie Negro Centerfielder Bill Bruton, 23, and strapping (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.) First Baseman Joe Adcock, 25. Mathews, a left-handed power hitter, leads both leagues in home runs (19), is second in runs batted in (52), and is hitting at a .318 clip. Often awkward last year, Mathews is "a major-league third baseman now," says Grimm. Fleetfooted Outfielder Bruton (30 stolen bases last year), usually the Braves...
...Grimm, a retired first baseman who has had his ups & downs in 30 years as a major-league player and manager, used to throw himself into hilarious pratfalls along the third-base coaching line whenever one of his team hit a homer. Nowadays, though "I still clown with my boys," Grimm no longer mugs for the fans. "It isn't that I've gone dignified," he explains. "It's strictly age" (54). "Jolly Cholly," who prides himself in being "the only left-handed banjo player in the majors," wisely refuses to pick Milwaukee for the pennant...