Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Martin's last stint produced a heroic .500 batting average, a sixth-game, ninth-inning single that gave the Yankees the crown. Against the Washington Senators Martin sparked his team with two crackling hits. Whitey Ford pitched a brilliant one-hitter, Mickey Mantle slammed out his 36th homer, drove in three runs, winning the game 4-2. In the dizzy seesaw American League race with Chicago (ahead by half a game) and Cleveland (half a game out), it was good, pennant-grabbing, Yankee ball...
...American League pennant race showed no signs of slowing down. With homers by Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees kept a precarious hold on first place, took the initial game of a double-header with Chicago, 6-1. But the second-place White Sox bounced back, 3-2, thanks to Third Baseman Bob Kennedy's first inning, three-run homer. The split held the Yankee's lead to half a game. Poor pitching cost the Cleveland Indians a double-header with the seventh-place Senators (8-2, 13-4), dropped them from a first-place...
...Cleveland, 30-year-old Vic Wertz, the Indians' veteran first baseman and outfielder, now in his ninth major-league season, was stricken with a mild attack of polio. Wertz, whose long-ball hitting (14 homers, 55 runs batted in) has helped keep the Indians high up in the American League pennant race, was a standout batter of the last year's World Series (a .500 average, including one homer, one triple and two doubles). At week's end Wertz's doctors reported "no signs" of paralysis, but he will probably be out for the rest...
...Homer's epic story has been greatly shortened and considerably amended by a battery of writers (Ben Hecht and Irwin Shaw plus three Italians and a Briton). But the Odyssey has been tampered with before and suffered no appreciable damage. Purists will find cause to complain in the sprucing up of Ulysses' character; he emerges less a calculating Greek warrior than an upstanding cowboy hero outfitted with chiton instead of chaps, sandals instead of saddlebags...
Mostly, the cast is one that Homer might have approved. In her revealing classical finery, Silvana Mangano is as provocative and enticing as a Tanagra figurine. Rossana Podesta plays the abandoned Nausicaä with all the sad airs and graces of a bereft princess. In the role of Penelope's leading suitor, Anthony Quinn shows a wily nobility, and young Franco Interlenghi as Ulysses' son gives real substance to his role of a stubborn adolescent. Kirk Douglas is more at home in the acrobatics of his part than in its subtleties, and occasionally seems tempted to reach...