Word: legerdemain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hands. The Mazeroski magic with glove and ball has the whole league beguiled. Even "No Hands" Mazeroski himself can produce no practical explanation of his liquid legerdemain at second. "I don't really consciously even throw to first base," said he. "I just throw. I guess after you've done it a few times you just naturally know where first base...
...problem, in the day of interservice rivalry, was to bring it back alive to prove that the Army had overcome a good portion, at least, of the re-entry problems.* To solve the homecoming problem, the Army disclosed last week, the nose cone displayed practically every type of electronic legerdemain except playing The Star-Spangled Banner...
...benefit for Manhattan's nonprofit Actors' Studio. Cinemactor Marlon Brando, a Studio alumnus, and Hollywood Expatriate Marilyn Monroe, presently a Studio "observer," got together to make an unlikely combination that could be a hilarious bonanza at the box office. Features of next month's Studio soiree: legerdemain by Actor Orson Welles, risque-poetry reading by Playwright Tennessee Williams, "after-midnight" songs by Italy's Cinemactress Anna Magnani...
...role of a gangster in her music hall revue. "She taught me about singing," he says. By good luck and some whopping exaggerations about his American experience, he next broke into the French movies, where he became a smash in American tough-guy roles. In a remarkable bit of legerdemain, he transferred his popular film personality to his singing style, mixing toughness and sentiment. Onstage he wears a sharply cut suit and sings (in passable French) from a boxer's stance in a wide-open baritone. "I'm just about everything Europeans instinctively admire about Americans," he admits...
...ROAD PROGRAM has hit a dead end. The plan to raise cash from bonds issued by a separate Government corporation and thus keep from raising the national debt was attacked by conservative Democrats as "financial legerdemain." The Administration is now resigned to the prospect that its $101 billion, ten-year highway program will be sharply scaled down. Nevertheless, chances are that the final bill will call for federal spending considerably above the present $6 billion a year. To help pay the bill, the 2?-a-gal. federal gasoline tax may be hiked...