Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran of professional baseball and basketball, Father Sime has always felt a drive to teach his son his own driving urge to excel in sports. As soon as young Dave could handle a basketball there was a backyard hoop. "When I was five," he recalls, "Dad had me out hitting baseballs. Dad always told me to run faster, throw harder, hit farther. He never has been completely satisfied...
...Exactly one year to the day after the Chicago Cubs' "Toothpick Sam" Jones pitched the last no-hit game in big-league baseball, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Carl Erskine turned in the second no-hit game of his career and beat the Giants...
...clock one morning last week when a car carrying four bluejackets plunged over an embankment and hit a tree in Arlington, Va. Two of the sailors were scarcely hurt, but two died with broken necks...
...theory which holds that nature must be remodeled to reflect the artist's own inner vision, has often proved more trap than triumph. But for a favored few it has provided the channel to a new freedom in 20th century art, a fact strikingly demonstrated by the two hit shows of the current Paris season: a two-month-long retrospective of the late Russian-born Chaim Soutine, and the current full-scale retrospective for doughty, 80-year-old Maurice de Vlaminck...
...plays it primitive, with a trio of winds and a powerhouse rhythm section which divides itself between a two-beat Calypso and a hot-blooded shuffle entirely on the cymbals. Of special interest: the polyrhythmic Venezuelan Waltz. Drummer-Vibraphonist Clemendore plays jazz a la George Shearing and includes one hit tune, Princess Charming...