Word: hellos
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...little work are not from writers but from players, recollected over some four decades. Asked how he could look forward to playing a doubleheader in midsummer heat, Joe DiMaggio replies, "Well, maybe somebody never saw me before." Umpire Tom Gorman, distracted by Yogi Berra's wagging tongue, is asked, "Hello, Tom, how's the family?" Gorman: "They died last night. Get in there and hit." Pitcher Early Wynn defends his right to knock down anyone holding a bat. "Suppose it was your own mother," demands a listener. Replies Wynn: "Mother was a pretty good curve-ball hitter...
...first and only King of Siam--an Oriental patriarch who is also a gigolo in jade. He is onstage perhaps half as much as the actress who plays Anna, the Englishwoman who educates the King's children; and of the half-dozen songs that still elate the memory (Hello, Young Lovers, Getting to Know You, I Whistle a Happy Tune, etc., etc., etc.), the King sings none. It matters not. By dint of dogged charisma, Brynner has identified himself with a role more than any other actor since Bela Lugosi hung up his fangs. Last week, when his "farewell" tour...
Thant K. Myint-U '87, who had just flown in from Christmas vacation in Bangkok, overcame his exhaustion to see the Secretary because, he said, his grandfather had served as a U.N. Third Secretary General and Myint-U thought it would be nice to "come say hello...
...Various Salvadorans have come to see me and say 'hello' and offer help if they can," she explains...
...Hello, Banana? Change money?" That sales pitch, unusually direct for China, was routinely delivered last week by jeans-clad youths outside Peking's Jianguo Hotel. The bananas, mostly imported from Ecuador, were the vendors' customary, and legal, merchandise. The offer to trade currency was neither normal nor legal-especially since the trade was 150 Chinese renminbi for 100 of the foreign-exchange certificates issued to non-Chinese that are officially valued...