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...spoil the successful marriage of Tom Forester, boy adman? Author Wallop is noted for his 1954 crystal-gazing novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (later the hit musical Damn Yankees), in which he showed how the Devil, with an assist from a Washington Senator outfielder, could raise hob in a baseball stadium; now he shows how the devil in the flesh complicates family life in the Madison Avenue...
When the Leverett House Dramatic Society took it upon themselves to tie three of his one-act plays down to the boards of their dining hall stage, they attempted a hob that has frightened several Broadway producers. On the whole, however, their efforts are quite successful. In one of the plays, they rise to a level very close to professional polish and capability...
...opinion, the best for scenic photography-was smashed beyond repair. A second of these cameras, tripod and all, went to its doom from the top of Rainbow Falls. But the third more than proved its worth in the Bitterroot Mountains, where the 40° below temperature would have played hob with roll film...
...Played hob with his figure...
Modern medicine now goes to the mind of the matter. A cirrhotic liver may fail to filter some nitrogen compounds which the body makes in the process of digesting protein foods such as meat. These compounds so affect the nervous system that a diet rich in protein will play hob with the intellectual power of such a patient...