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...Durocher. "All I had to do was add a little practical advice about wearing his pants higher to give the pitchers a smaller strike zone. Otherwise, I let Willie's instincts alone. Hit the kid a fly with a couple of men on and he'll peg to the right base without thinking. Maybe I'll tell him where to play for this or that batter, or when to wait out a pitcher. That's all. Hell, I learn about baseball just by watching...
...Actress Benoit can never hope to equal the eager smooching of Barry Nelson and Joan Caulfield (My Favorite Husband), the pratfalls of Joan Davis and Jim Backus (I Married Joan), or the downright silliness of Ray Milland and Phyllis Avery (Mr. McNutley). Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy) and Peg Lynch (Ethel and Albert) have all the first patents on feminine illogic, while Betty White (Life with Elizabeth) has staked out prior rights to the cuteness concession. Cox and his bride are too sweet-tempered to capture the honors in marital wrangling from Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows (The Honeymooners...
Last week, on the stand in the trial in a Manhattan Federal District Court, Reynolds charged that Peg's description of him was a "malicious lie" and recounted his frontline war record. A deposition was introduced from Press Lord Beaverbrook praising Reynolds' "splendid pieces of reporting," while Eisenhower's wartime naval aide, Captain Harry Butcher, pointed out that Reynolds' reputation as a correspondent won him"the confidence of Ike." Pegler's charge that Reynolds went"nuding along the public road[with] a wench . . . absolutely raw," was fantastic, said Reynolds' lawyer, "since Mr. Reynolds...
Knock on Wood (Paramount), like Casanova, fails to fit a famous odd peg into the rectangular hole of the screen, but it is a much more entertaining try. The trouble with Danny Kaye as a movie comedian is that his humor is almost too graphic to photograph. Give him the wide-open spaces of a theater stage and like the prairie flower, he keeps growing wilder every hour. But confine him to the camera's cold, Technicolored eye and take away the living audience that gives him his reason for spreeing. and Kaye is not much better than...
Comedy series with Peg Lynch, Alan Bunce...