Word: morganization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minnie Minoso drew a walk and was sacrificed to second. Still switching players as fast as he could remember their names, Casey had brought Tom Morgan in to pitch. Understandably, Bauer dropped a wide throw, and Minoso slid into third. Even so, the Yanks seemed safe. Catcher Moss bounced a routine grounder down to Phil Rizzuto. Incredibly, the incredible happened again. Robinson dropped Rizzuto's peg, Minoso came home, and the Sox were back in front. This time they held on to their lead and walked off the field winners...
Essentially, the film chronicles the triumph of British pluck over Levantine cunning. On one side are ranked wholesome Terence Morgan and his fellow painters (Derek Bond and Paul Rogers); on the other looms the hypnotic Svengali (oldtime Shakespearean Actor Donald Wolfit). who drifts about the screen in tattered clothes, rather like a grounded crow. In between is Hildegarde Neff, who makes Trilby, the Irish artist's model, exactly the "great, beautiful, stupid cow" of a woman that Du Maurier intended...
...romance between Artist Morgan and Hildegarde strikes its first snag when he is horrified to discover her posing in the nude for an art class: its second, when Morgan's mother begs Hildegarde not to ruin her son by marrying him. Hildegarde, who has been using Svengali's hypnotism as a sort of aspirin treatment for her headaches, is so unnerved by this classic gambit that she falls completely under Svengali's power. His fell purpose: to make a world-famous diva of her. Morgan searches madly for his lost love until, kicked by a horse...
...stable (130 horses) and a reputation as a breeder, once raced his Arabian thoroughbred Magnolia against a roan colt owned by Thomas Jefferson at Alexandria's Jockey Club. (Magnolia lost.) From New England came the fast little Narragansett pacer (one was ridden by Paul Revere) and the Morgan horse whose progeny, crossbred with other strains, produced every type from draft horses to racing trotters...
People (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Human interest stories from around the world, with Morgan Beatty...