Word: midseason
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learned where the plate was, wound up with 18 victories and broke Christy Mathewson's 58-year-old National League record by striking out 269 batters. Last season he threw a no-hitter against the New York Mets and struck out 18 Chicago Cubs in one game. By midseason his record was 14-4, and he was leading the National League in earned run average (2.06) and strikeouts...
Szell came to the Cleveland Orchestra in 1946, renowned as a greatly gifted Wagnerian conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and as a man with a monumental temper (his Met career ended when he walked out in midseason after a dispute with General Manager Rudolf Bing). As a hedge against the possibility of stirring up any such disputes in the Cleveland, Szell demanded and received assurance that the board would give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." The board provided the means, and Budapest-born George Szell, a World War II immigrant to the U.S., created...
After retiring from the Oxford rugby team following his marriage last July, Rhodes Scholar Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 23, was cajoled into rejoining the floundering squad at midseason, plunged like a panther into the first "bad show" of his three years in England. Smarting from a series of thumping tackles by an exuberant opponent, West Point's 1958 All-America halfback abandoned pursuit of the ball for pursuit of his tormentor, and vengefully set about choking the aggressiveness out of him. But though spectators decorously booed Dawkins' unsportsmanlike lapse, there was wide rejoicing over the post-match shandy...
...made all his sons practice after their chores. After two years at the University of Alabama. Lary quit college to sign a contract with the Tigers, joined Detroit in 1955. won 14 games in his rookie year. The next season. Lary was foundering with a 4-10 record at midseason. Then he began experimenting with a knuckle ball, roared through the last half of the season winning 17 games to wind up with a 21-13 year. Said Ted Williams, then splintering splendidly with the Boston Red Sox: "He's got guts, and he'll fight...
...celluloid gut-spillers were a rousing commercial success-about the only dramatic success in a season of frightful failure. Producer David Susskind's tenuous empire was tottering: his Witness was canceled in midseason, his fatuous debate with Nikita Khrushchev drew critical scorn. As Susskind's hair began to thin and his pockets bulged, his image as TV's angry young rebel became less convincing, but his influence still pervaded the industry, and his Open End consistently demonstrated that conversation, if intelligent, can be entertaining. Jackie Gleason was miserably miscast as the M.C. of an ill-fated...