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...baseball seriously. Manhattan may have taller skyscrapers and Washington more skillful politicos, but in any kind of fair fight-say of nine men on a ball field-Brooklyn expects to hold its own. The great moments in Brooklyn's rowdy baseball tradition have usually been accidental: the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head with a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers slid into the same base at the same time; the day Babe Herman almost started a fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket. Under Durocher...
...will take a better play to better U.S.Soviet relations through the theater. This one badly flops, less because it is built on a formula than because it is built so badly. What is finally thrown together is a hack job of comedy, corn, melodrama and sex that provides a few bright moments by way of some minor characters...
...with the University. Deserving as they undoubtedly were, their merits were largely intramural and might have been recognized in a less ostentatious manner. Of the remaining three, the more recent works of one, at least, could hardly earn him a greater reputation than that of a Reader's Digest hack writer, leading the observer of such academic proceedings to wonder how much serious consideration is given prospective candidates for honorary degrees...
When a fare in Leon Werline's hack left his wallet behind, Werline drove back and found him. From Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey, Army veteran Werline got a $20 reward, a couple of drinks, and a citation: "Not for his honesty but for the fact that he is a veteran of the horrible war we have had, God bless him and I thank...
...None of the people described are the "carefree savages" idealized by civilization-haters. The cultures are primitive, but the lives of the individuals are anything but simple. Since they lack effective agriculture, they have to depend on nature's stingy gifts, laboriously gathering everything even faintly edible. They hack down palms, make sawdusty flour out of the pith. They build brush dams across streams to trap fish. They pick up tiny seeds, break hard nuts with stones. They eat skunks, grasshoppers, alligators, armadillos...