Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret of his new steadiness surprises Turley himself with its simplicity: he has learned how to breathe. Before every pitch, he takes a deep, relaxing breath, and "it loosens my shoulder muscles." Turley considers pitching "an exercise in psychology," is willing and anxious to learn from anyone who can help. From Don Larsen he learned the no-wind-up style that aids his control and concentration. From careful observation of his own failures, he learned to shorten his stride so that he no longer bangs his right elbow against his left knee when he follows through after a pitch. Unnecessary...
Third Strike. Then Walter waddled to the mound. He went into his pitch on more TV programs than Betty Furness. He was no fireballer; he did not try to blow down the opposition. Instead, he tantalized the opposition with soft change-ups and calm, canny rationalizations. But mostly, he showed the voters that he was not a monster. Always he spoke softly and sounded reasonable. Two nights before the election. O'Malley's well-heeled backers organized a telethon in which Hollywood's most articulate stars turned out as cheerleaders...
...left her unabashed (her recent flibbertigibbeting with Ramfis Trujillo got her denounced in Congress as "apparently the most expensive courtesan since Madame de Pompadour"). She even broke in on that most cherished of TV sacraments, the commercial, once got Paar so flustered by interrupting his Norelco razor sales pitch ("It will cut him!" she cried) that he screamed: "It won't cut anything!" The audience was delighted. "Just what I expected," bubbled Paar after the show. "She asked me what to do. I said, 'Be yourself.' " He invited Zsa Zsa back for a return match and said...
Lefthander Gerry Emmet will probably start on the mound for the varsity. The tall sophomore gained credit for the win in the Crimson's 12-7 victory over the Bulldogs earlier this season, when he relieved starter Dave Brigham in the third inning and stayed in to pitch the rest of the game...
When motion pictures began to speak, more than one star of the silent screen, e.g., Corinne Griffith, John Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from again. But to Ronald Colman, whose English accent and pleasingly low register were envied from Metro to Paramount, the coming of sound meant second wind for one of the cinema's longest and most unvaryingly successful careers...