Word: herman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CROWD (Argo) that collects around the solidly welded, ten-year-old Ramsey Lewis trio is quite a sizable mob. This LP, recorded live at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C., has soared up the pop charts, past such rock 'n' run regulars as the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits. The title song has the usu al rocking beat, but Pianist Lewis also dispenses old-fashioned swing, bland harmonies and light-fingered embellishments in such well-worth-repeating pieces as Duke Ellington's Come Sunday and Buddy Johnson's Since I fell...
...What do you want me to do - cry?" snarled San Francisco Manager Herman Franks. Days before, Franks's Giants seemed to have the National League pennant all wrapped up. They had won 14 games in a row, 17 out of their last 18, and they beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 in the opener of a three-game series. Then - trouble...
...Herman the Hormone. As a careerist who rose from the lowest echelons of the service to become U.S. Ambassador to Mali, Senegal, and finally Mauritania, Villard reserves his greatest scorn for the political appointee, the "manufacturer of kazoos from Peoria," who gets the choicest embassies for the fattest campaign contributions...
...have had an ambassador in South America," he writes, "who imbibed so heavily that he fell flat on the embassy floor, an ambassador in Portugal who propelled whipped cream into a lady's bosom across the dinner table, an ambassador in The Netherlands who was known as 'Herman the Hormone' because of his propensity for pinching the behind of any girl within reach...
...accused Franks, 50, of being that be fore. A roly-poly ex-catcher, he could look back over half a dozen big-league seasons and a lifetime batting average of a minuscule .199. When he coached the Giants in 1959 and 1960, sportswriters gleefully dubbed him "Dumbkopf Franks," and Herman was so mortified that he decided to quit. But last year San Francisco Manager Alvin Dark got himself fired - for telling a newsman that Negroes and Latins are no match for white ballplayers "when it comes to mental alertness." Back came Franks as the Giants' manager for 1965. Most...