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...Angeles Angels Manager Bill Rigney thinks the bats, not the balls, are responsible. "They have a harder finish." says he. "And the light bats have that good whip action." As if to back up Rigney, the Tigers' Cash does his heavy hitting with a 31-oz. bat. lightest on the team. By comparison. Ruth used to tote a 42-oz. shillelagh to the plate...
...Sharpshooter Jean Beliveau have seldom played up to their best. By season's end, complacency proved fatal. In contrast, the Black Hawks came into the play-offs in top form. Forward Ab McDonald's return from the injured list restored their stealthy "scooter line"-one of the lightest in the league. Brisk playmaking, sharp checking and the defense work of Goalie Glenn Hall (TIME, Jan. 20), made the difference. "We played that funny game," said Red Wing General Manager Jack Adams. "We didn't let them have the puck...
...produced by Playwright Stevens, lacks two of the Broadway principals and most of the bawdier jokes. Instead of Boyer and Colbert, the picture offers James Mason, an actor who could not crack a joke if it was a lichee nut, and Susan Hayward, a bargain-basement Bette Davis whose lightest touch as comedienne would stun a horse...
...books that a B-girl does to a prostitute: its implied promise is sex in return for money, but what it delivers is merely a phony hotel room key and a whiff of perfume. A certain amount of houghmagandy does occur ("His touch on her body was the lightest she could ever imagine and it awakened every single nerve . . ."), but it is pallid stuff compared with the rape, incest, flagellation and other veneries of Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place. If Author Metalious continues such deception, her readers will all go back to Jack Woodford...
Continuing his study of astronomical phenomena. Liller used the density of the planet Saturn, estimated at .72 the density of water. Astronomers have calculated, however, that even if the entire planet were made up only of hydrogen, the lightest element, gravitational attraction of atoms would bind them together so tightly that their density would be far greater than...