Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...star of the film is clearly the chorus; and the whole production seems to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sing beautifully together and are right on pitch. Violet Teass wrote the fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21 members of the National Symphony Orchestra, is unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert is the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapts most effectively the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
While Jim McGlothlin looks and talks like a boy, he pitches like a pro. Playing for a team that as late as June 8 was in last place, eleven games off the pace, Jim has won eight games and lost only two. His earned-run average is 1.80 -best of any starting pitcher in the American League-and he leads the league in shutouts with five. Last week the Angels were in fifth place, only six games behind the Chicago White Sox, and Manager Bill Rigney was hollering at his players in the locker room...
...Seattle, where he caught the eye of Bob Lemon, onetime star pitcher for the Cleveland Indians. Jim went to Seattle with an overhand fastball, a nickel curve, and simplistic notions about strategy: if the bases were loaded and the count was 3 and 2, he threw the next pitch low and away. At least nobody ever hit him in a spot like that. Lemon taught him how to throw a sidearm fastball, a slider and a change of pace, and he also taught McGlothlin something about major-league hitters: "They're human, like everybody else...
...MIGHT BE 1-A, BUT YOU'RE A-l WITH Us cheered a recent Armstrong Cork recruiting ad in the University of Pittsburgh's Pitt News. The ingratiating pitch at Pitt was pretty much the corporate commencement address of 1967. In their never-ending need for skilled manpower, companies all over the country have been plying more graduates with more money than ever before. All in all, says the authoritative College Placement Council, this has been "the toughest, most competitive college-recruiting year in history...
...Swiss chemist named Hersch Gablinger had found a way to make carbohydrate-free beer. Now, having bought out his secret, Rheingold's Forrest Brewing division has just introduced a no-carbohydrate beer named after Gablinger. On the bottle is an inscription, "Doesn't fill you up," a pitch that Rheingold hopes will make Gablinger's a bestseller among weight-weary beer lovers...