Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catcher Pearson dies, but by that time Narrator Wiggen and Author Harris have made their point: scratch a ballplayer and you find a human being, a taxpayer, a batter in the game of life whose exhilaration at pitching a shutout or swatting a homer with the bases full is apt to be balanced at any time by an ignominious strikeout or a sad walk to the showers. As the theme of a novel, this carries its own banality if only because no decent reader would want to quarrel with it. What makes Bang the Drum Slowly unique in current fiction...
Down in Bradenton, Fla., the Boston Red Sox and the Milwaukee Braves battled eleven innings before settling for a 7 to 7 tie in a Grapefruit League game. Red Sox rookie catcher Haywood Sullivan was the batting hero of the day, belting a three-run homer in the seventh inning...
Helen of Troy isn't likely to get you through a Homer hour exam. Classics Comics give the real poop, but then, Classics Comics generally don't have the wonder of stereophonic sound. Also...
...Court of Appeals bench in Chicago. The Department of Justice pointed out to him that the Constitution prohibits a man from stepping directly from the U.S. Senate to the federal bench. From then on Jenner sulked, and refused even to talk to his fellow Indiana Senator, Republican Homer Capehart, about any other nominee for the post. "Believe it or not," Capehart told a friend, "the senior Senator from Indiana can't get an appointment with the junior Senator...
Musing about his colleague's tirades, Homer Capehart last week said, of the state where Bill Jenner once was a political monarch: "I don't think the people of Indiana are taking it seriously." In 1956, Senator Jenner is the symbol of a brand of Republicanism that has quietly, gradually, relentlessly been made obsolete by the Eisenhower Administration. He has been transformed from a reactionary into a fossil...