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...second place: the Milwaukee Braves. Two months ago the Braves had been out of sight, 15 games back. Then, winning three out of every four games, they leapfrogged over the aging Dodgers and drew a bead on the Giants. The Braves have a tight infield, good pitching, and a magician of their own-former Giant Bobby Thomson, who hit baseball's most famed home run: a ninthinning playoff blast against the Dodgers to win the 1951 pennant for New York. At week's end, facing a crucial three-game series with the Giants, the Braves faltered, stood...
...that "when we have done our very, very best . . . and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others." In a handsome collaboration between centuries, and in the first new U.S. edition in 25 years, Illustrator Louis Slobodkin adorns Word Magician Dickens' fable with just the right visual touch of fairy-tale grandeur...
Magic & Ballads. The program got under way at 10 a.m. at a wooden speaking platform under an enormous frame shelter. There was room for 300 fan-waving listeners under the shed, and a public-address system rigged to a station wagon kept the rest of the ridge informed. A magician performed for the small fry, and Pleaz Mobley, the Eighth District's Republican candidate for Congress, sang the old English ballads that the hillfolk love...
Yellow and Raspberry. Ferdinand escapes Sergeant Matthew by becoming "Master of the Horse" to a French magician and his assistant, a lady named "The Flower of San Francisco." ("He sawed off my head every evening . . ." recounts the Flower, "and two matinees besides Rrr! . . . Rrr! . . . The blood flowed down to the orchestra . . . The spectators would faint!") But by this time Ferdinand has almost decided that the trenches of Flanders are safer and cozier than the walks of Lambeth...
Celine writes as the mind is purported to think: in fragments. His narrator is a wounded veteran from the French army of World War I who goes to live in London, among "pimps, prostitutes, a pawnbroker, an arsonist, and a magician." The action shifts from place to place, almost at random, and the transitions are so violent as to be unintelligible. Unintroduced characters appear and drop out, but they are not missed. At the close of the work the narrator catches a bus. The book is finished, and the narrator forgotten...