Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 59, baseball's fiery Black Irish spark-plug catcher and Lefty Grove's battery mate on Connie Mack's old Philadelphia Athletics, who was sold in 1934 for $100,000 as player-manager to the second-division Detroit Tigers and in four seasons drove the team to two American League pennants (plus two second places) and their first World Series championship, but whose playing career was abruptly ended by a beanball in 1937; after a long illness; in Lake Forest...
Spain's conservative and puritanical pri mate. Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 84. Archbishop of Toledo, has vigorously stepped in to defend H.O.A.C.; after Franco lashed out at "some exalted priests" for stirring up trouble in Asturias, Cardinal Pla y Deniel allowed his church officials to discipline the erring priests, but neglected to condemn their activities...
Charlotte has a seven-year widow's itch for a mate. Humbert obliges, but only because he has a very special itch for her gum-chewing, Coke-swigging daughter Lolita (Sue Lyon). The shock effect of this is dimmed, since the film ducks the duty of specifying Lolita's age and gives the part to a girl of 14 who looks a round 17. Making her movie debut, Teen-Ager Lyon is simply overmatched by the demands of her part. She acts knowing rather than sexy, and she lacks what Nabokov himself has defined as the "demoniac" essence...
...owes all her best lines to nature. Though only 19, she seems to have acquired the false vivacity and hackneyed mannerisms of generations of musicomedy ingenues. Swooping about the stage like a benign witch out of a child's storybook, fortyish ex-Ballerina Maria Karnilova, who plays a mate-hungry widow, is remarkably agile and refreshingly comic...
Lover Come Back. Rock Hudson and Doris Day as adman and adwoman in a stock situation comedy worked out as smoothly as a chess problem: opening gambit, queen's sacrifice, knight rooked, mate...