Word: offbeaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Story. In the face of the TV screen, the newspapers' old running story of the full convention became somewhat less important (as the newspaper's play-by-play of the baseball game has become unimportant). The daily press threw new energy and new talent into exploring the offbeat byways of color and anecdote as well as the lofty heights of analysis and interpretation. Ironically, some of the best punditry came not from Chicago but from Washington, where Columnist Walter Lippmann watched the convention on TV. Some of the sidebars ran to outlandish trivia, e.g., the contents of Adlai...
...Englishman, Bernard Middleton, and tenaciously by a barbaric Russian, Count Kovanski. Natalia Solario does not stoop to conquer. Yet her adroitly detached existence ends abruptly one evening when brother Eugene returns, penniless and impenitent, from his twelve-year exile. At this point, Madame Solario shifts from waltz time to offbeat fandango...
...those were two-fisted piano players," he recalls. "Men like Sticky Mack and Doc Perry and James P. Johnson and Willie 'The Lion' Smith. With their left hand, they'd play big chords for the bass note, and just as big ones for the offbeat, and they really swang. The right hand played real pretty. They did things technically you wouldn't believe...
...time, not the soap-opera kind." Monday he gives them his "most realistic, experimental and artistic" shows (with Actors' Studio overtones). Tuesday is "problem-play-with-guts" day. "We pick them up with a comedy on Wednesday, if we can find one." Thursday he tries for an offbeat production, "with a gimmick twist," and Friday is a rehash of a Broadway play. Mostly, McCleery is in a Monday mood: "Here are my people. Look at them and listen to them. They are part of life...
...brief months in the bush leagues, he has plodded out to take his pitching turn with every-fourth-day regularity. Dedicated to the old-fashioned notion that he is getting paid for throwing the ball over the plate, and not for demonstrating some trick delivery or practicing some offbeat vaudeville act for the TV cameras, Roberts has performed his job with an efficiency deadly to 1) opponents and 2) baseball records. In his third major-league season he won 20 games-a record no other Philly had even flirted with since the hard-drinking days of the late great Grover...