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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found your "Walter in Wonderland" story [about O'Malley and the DodgersApril 28] interesting, amusing and, most of all, clarifying as to why "Dem Bums'' took off for Los Angeles...
...O'Malley is merely a shrewd operator who holds personal gain above loyalty to the people of Brooklyn and above the good name of baseball...
...Walter O'Malley were really shrewd, he would convert the Coliseum into an outdoor movie house when the Dodgers are out of town. With a built-in 42-ft. screen it should be a natural...
Your cover portrait of Walter O'Malley will furnish me with an ideal dart board...
That would be enough, but there's more. The sound-effects man was obsessed with reducing everything to tape--including the subtle squish of a knife in the belly. Edmund O'Brien and Brando confuse drama with intensity and emotion with shouting. And the producer staffed Cassius's band of conspirators with film lot extras noted chiefly for Grade B gangster movies and smoked alfalfa sagas--making it difficult to take their pentameters with the proper seriousness...