Word: paule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hemphill. Paul Hemphill...
Stories about the demise of baseball's minor leagues have become as popular in recent years as profiles on Paul (Bear) Bryant. These stories always define the problem (in 20 years, the number of minor leagues has shrunk from 58 to 19), offer perfectly sound reasons (televising of major league games into minor league towns leads the list), then grandly conclude that nobody misses the minor leagues because even without them overall baseball attendance is higher than ever. To me, one of the thousands who hitchhiked into a Class D town as a teen-ager begging for a tryout, these...
Harvard has named the committee to select the newsmen who will come here next year as Neiman Fellows. They are Chicago Daily News Editor Roy M. Fisher, Milwaukee Journal Associate Editor Paul Ringler, member of the Board of Overseers and Boston Globe Publisher Davis Taylor, astronomy Professor and Master of Adams House William Liller '48, Harvard News Officer William M. Pinkerton, and Nieman Foundation Curator Dwight E. Sargent...
...plot construction. The lines range from pure exposition to the hokey (Father, speaking of the son: "He called me old man!") to the absurd ("I don't know where you're headed, but you're going to be pushed there damn fast."). Some of the worst writing centers around Paul's teenage affair, gratuitously stuck into the second half--complete with flashback...
Sorensen doeen't have much luck with the staging either. After the painfully clear exposition of the robbery in the script, it's pointless to accent the obvious by having two scenes close with Paul malevolently eyeing the safe...