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...shouted advice from the stands, but the burly, ruddy man alongside the Cincinnati bat rack gave no sign that he heard. The center-field Scoreboard reminded him that he was a front runner in a National League pennant race so close that the loss of a single game might mean the difference between first place and fourth, but beyond pawing abstractedly at his red-sleeved uniform shirt, he appeared unmoved. All week long, alone in the shouting crowd with his furious concentration, the Redlegs' Manager George Robert ("Birdie") Tebbetts, 44, was busy outguessing the opposition, calling the shots...
...offer legitimacy to as evil a regime as Red China would mean a new low in the moral degeneration of American principles. JOAN THOMPSON Washington...
...Meaning of Advocacy. Writing for the majority, Justice Harlan laid the fault principally on District Judge William C. Mathes for issuing "fatally defective" instructions to the jury at the 1952 trial. Judge Mathes had instructed the jury that "advocacy and teaching" under the Smith Act did not mean merely talking about the "desirability" or "propriety" of overthrowing the U.S. Government by force and violence. Instead, said Mathes, it required "urging" the "necessity" and "duty" of violent, forcible overthrow...
...there will be time for meekness when you try to better it." With that challenging epigraph borrowed from James M. (Peter Pan) Barrie, a Philadelphia artist named John Maass has written a book (The Gingerbread Age; Rinehart; $7.95) defending-of all things -American Victorian architecture. "This was no mean age," says Author Maass. "In every field of human endeavor, the mid-19th century was a time of frenetic activity and massive achievement. Is it true that the generation which constructed the transatlantic cable and the transcontinental railroad was unable to build a decent house? The truth is that an enormously...
This movie might better have been titled "The Treasure of Sierra Mombasa" or "King Solomon's Mimes." With snarling distrust and open greed. Hero Wilde keeps a bloodshot eye on his brother's two partners, now his. because they are just as mean and avaricious as he is. In fact, Wilde distrusts the whole safari-even the coy lady anthropologist (Donna Reed) and her missionary uncle (Leo Genn), and certainly the natives, as shifty-eyed a pack as ever whetted spears. The snail's pace direction makes it seem they will never find that blasted mine...