Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After absorbing the information, I am inclined to believe Leo is getting a raw deal.... The Lip is a tough guy on the field because he wants to win. He's being paid to have a winning ball club and he earns his salary. The kids think him a great guy because he's the type of a fellow who can let important things wait in order to answer questions or help some kid with his baseball problem...
...Orleans Jazz (Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band; Columbia, 8 sides). Strictly for New Orleans fans, this album includes barrelhouse (Bucket Got a Hole in It), stomp, blues and a shouting version of Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho. Trombonist Ory sings two numbers in Creole French. The ensemble includes Barney Bigard on the clarinet. Performance: good...
Pack and his "Pibe" (Argentine slang for "The Kid") got back in time to cover Italy's fall. One night in Naples, tipped off that an Allied bigwig was arriving, they invited fellow reporters in for a binge. While Pibe got them drunk, Pack slipped out to get his interview. When the boys missed him and scrambled in pursuit, they found that he had crippled their jeeps...
...John Florence Sullivan, 52 years ago, on the lace-curtain-Irish fringe of Cambridge, Mass. His father was a bookbinder. His mother died when he was three, and he and his brother Bobby went to live with her sister,"Aunt Lizzie" Herlihy, in Allston, Mass. He was a scrawny kid, all arms, legs and adenoids. The tough little Micks in his new neighborhood took one look at his pinched, birdlike face, nicknamed him "Twit," and let him play alone. To pass time - and attract attention - Johnny started juggling whatever came to hand. "That," says Fred, "was my first and biggest...
...brandy-muzzling relative are effective; Paul Harvey is excellent as the Worcester girl's forthright father; and Peggy Cummins (who won and then lost the lead in Forever Amber) is a very pretty though not very Bostonian daughter. The real star of the show is an ex-Quiz Kid named Vanessa Brown who, as the timid cousin Richard Ney doesn't want to marry, suggests an early Janet Gaynor or a younger Ingrid Bergman...