Word: hanke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proved that a movie in three dimensions does not necessarily have depth; A Lion is in the Streets demonstrates that a picture in Technicolor is not necessarily colorful. In fact, in every respect bur one, this film is drab and pale. The exception is James Cagney's portrayal of Hank Martin, the ambitious backwoods peddler who almost "lynched a whole state." Against the rest of the film, Martin stands out like a Lutree potrait superimposed on a black-and-white pencil sketch...
...Long of Louisiana. It is a much freer version that the recent Academy Award-winning All the Kings Men and a much less convincing one. While All the Kings Men depicted an era and a people as well as Willy Stark, A Lion is in the Streets portrays only Hank Martin, a character divorced form his context. For this reason it lacks much of the color of its black and white predecessor...
Mickey Mantle, the New York Yankees' 21-year-old glamour boy, powered a 375-foot home run with Hank Baner on base in the eighth inning yesterday for a second straight Yankee victory over Brooklyn, 4-2, before 66,786 World Series fans...
...Bombers leaped to a four-run advantage in the first inning of yesterday's game, sandwiching three walks between a pair of triples by Hank Bauer and Billy Martin. Martin's blow came with the bases loaded. Reynolds kept the Brooks in check until the fifth inning, when rookie second baseman Junior Gilliam smashed a bases-empty home run, his second...
...Backing them up is the greatest money pitcher in either league: Allie Reynolds, who at 34 can still pitch his way out of a tight spot with three blistering fast balls. Though Yankee hitters are less fearsome than the Dodgers, four regulars are over .300. Catcher Yogi Berra, Outfielders Hank Bauer and Gene Woodling, Pinchhitter Johnny Mize can all deliver the big hit with men on bases. And in Mickey Mantle (.297) the Yankees have a bubblegum-popping youngster who runs like a scared whippet and can slam a ball out of any ball park in the country...