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Always a Surprise. Running the Yanks this hectic season, Casey was caught in a pennant race as wild and uncertain as his 1923 inside-the-park homer. He got started slowly; not until May 21 did the Yanks pick up the lead. July 1 saw them 6½ games in front. Then they stumbled. By the end of August, Cleveland and Chicago were fighting for first. But in September the Yanks made Casey look like a prophet. He said that the team that won eight straight in the stretch would wind up in the World Series against the Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Fella | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Wild Wilder. Skin turned out to be, in six full-house performances, the dramatic showpiece of Salute. Salute marked the first invasion of the laggardly U.S. onto a critical cultural battlefield of the cold war. Skin opened after only two hectic rehearsals in its Paris theater. Some 200 sittie-talkies caught a running translation for its French-speaking viewers. In general, Paris critics raved, though a few found it "furiously intellectual'' or "slightly incoherent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Skin, New Vim | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...Thomson's later style. William Schuman's five piano pieces called Voyage (played by Beveridge Webster) include two that find the composer more absorbed in the web of his ponderous sonorities than a listener ever could be; other movements titillate the ear with a kind of hectic animation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...hectic 2Oth century, the shortfall between the actual death of the Presidents and their life expectancy has averaged eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To Be or Not | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...Marks. Between the insult and the honor, Captain Alfred Dreyfus had endured a personal agony that included four years of solitary imprisonment on Devil's Island. Because of the injustice done him, France had gone through a dozen of the most turbulent years in its hectic history and come close to civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Lie | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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