Word: madness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least of his talents is keeping peace between the players and rambunctious Larry MacPhail, the club president. The blowoff that cleared the air came May 22, when MacPhail fined six stubborn players (including DiMaggio) for refusing to cooperate with the Yankee promotion office. From that day, with the team mad, the Yankees rolled up 34 victories in the next 46 games. Harris' pre-game pep talk was always the same: "If we can only get over this...
...regulars from "Earnest," Gielgud plays his part of the penniless, enamored black sheep, just straightly enough to win the genuine sympathy of the audience. The very funny scene in which he pretends to be mad is Congreve's best, and Gielgud's ability to handle more serious roles is shown in his tragi-comie declaration of love to Angelica. Pamela Brown plays the latter with the necessary restraint to make the character credible beneath the neat stylization. Her quiet, satirical mugging helps give the standard part another dimension. Expertly entangled among the various intrigues of plot are Robert Flemyng...
Australia may have a shortage of productive workmen, but it has no shortage of bookies (who, in Australia, are highly respectable gentry). Aussies, who hate to miss a chance to get a lot for a little, play the horses heavily. In sports-mad Brisbane, the favorite race-track bet is a long-shot version of the U.S. daily double-a combined long-odds bet on two races. Some bookmakers, known as "doubles fielders" will not accept bets of any other kind...
...Christian name since the 16th Century, Dom Pedro V was once a monarch as absolute in his way as Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. A Portuguese army had helped enthrone him, and for 30 years they let him reign supreme over his subjects. Then in 1884 Europe began its mad scramble for Africa. Portugal's empire builders sent out their own resident governor, and Pedro and all his kind became mere pensioners. Last week, with 700 other pilgrims from Portugal's now tatterdemalion empire, another King Dom Pedro, successor to an empty title, was in Rome to celebrate...
...that good." When he started doing civilian strips (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945), he had 180 papers using his cartoons; now he is down to 79 (circ. about 5,000,000). He is not bitter over the cancellations: "The quality of my drawings was lousy, and I got mad when I heard everybody talking about another war before the blood had dried up. I made the mistake of going around trying to hit people with a sledge hammer. I lost my sense of humor. I was floating around with my feet about 20 feet off the ground...