Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandfather was West Point, class of '15, his dad, class of '44; now David Eisenhower, 18, is putting a hitch in the family's military pitch. An honor graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Ike's only grandson will enter Amherst College this fall, instead of the Military Academy. "His parents felt that the decision should be David's alone," said Grandma Mamie in a McCall's interview...
Baseball players, like witch doctors, are a mighty superstitious lot. Take Gaylord Jackson Perry, 27, who pitches for the San Francisco Giants. Righthander Perry really likes steak, but his wife once gave him baked chicken before he went out to pitch. He won. So then it was chicken every workday. In the dugout before each game, he grabs the bat rack and gives it a shake-which puts the whammy on enemy batters. Before every inning, he runs out to the mound at full speed. Before a key pitch, he studiously turns his back to the plate and taps...
...investment. His fastball was wild, and when he tried to develop a slider (or fast curve) it was too slow. It took eight years and several elevator rides to the minors before Perry learned to improve his control, to keep the ball low and to give himself another effective pitch. This spring, he finally got the hang of a fast slider that starts out like an ordinary fastball then breaks down and away. Ever since, batters have been wondering where the horsehide went...
...Ghetto." At the same time, the Knights have altered the pitch of their national advertising from conversion to cooperation. Says Homer J. L'Hote, head of the Missouri Knights: "We used to try to make others see that we had the right religion. The attitude we now take is that we are on common ground with them, that we will work along with them." The ground has become so common that when Knights invite Masons to a joint meeting, the speaker is frequently a rabbi. Frank C. Staples, grand master of the New York State Masons, says that Masonic...
Since nearly every line of dialogue strikes a familiar blue note, the only way to justify still another fictional show-biz biography is to link it to the color question. Adam is a specialty act salted with social protest. It is played at a feverish pitch by Sammy Davis Jr., who has surrounded himself with such Negro performers as Ossie Davis, Louis Armstrong and, as the girl in his cheering section, a sunburst of shy sepia charm named Cicely Tyson. A handful of jazzmen (Mel Torme, Kai Winding, Nat Adderly) make the score swing but aren't much help...