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...which was built around four singles, a walk, and a balk. The last of these misfortunes was charged against Cook's reliever, Dave Kipp; and it provoked some minor objections from coach Norman Shepard. Strolling back to the dugout after a brief conference with the umpires, Shepard received the razz from a group of Naval officers sitting in the stands nearby. "We rely on you for our security," Shepard retorted before taking a seat. This apparently stopped the jeering, but the Navy players proceeded to make things increasingly insecure for the Crimson...
...Bridge on the River Kwai (Sam Spiegel; Columbia) will be called a tragedy; it is. It will be called a comedy; it is. It will be called a swell adventure story, a slickly calculated piece of commercial entertainment, an angry razz at the thing called war, a despairing salute to the men war makes, an ironic masterpiece; it is in some degree all of these things...
...Alice is accepted as one of the boys, even by the opposition: "They don't razz me much any more. When I started fogging my fast ball in there, they quit." And she is doing all right at bat: she has whacked three home runs in nine games, and her current batting average is .700. Last week, Alice emulated her idol, Bob Feller, by pitching a no-hitter. Southpaw Alice, whose opinion of her teammates' ability is not high ("Our shortstop can't catch the ball, and our catcher's terrible, too . . . The boys should practice...
...light grey homburg, looking younger and more erect than he did in his well-worn uniform. The P.A. system boomed out a recorded 17-gun salute as the MacArthurs were escorted to a flag-draped box. "We are going to ... watch the long hits, mark the errors and razz the umpire, even if we know he is right," announced the general, and heaved out the first ball. Despite the MacArthurs' encouraging presence, the Giants lost, 6-5. The band played Old Soldiers Never...
...Standards. Toledo-born Art Tatum played his first professional engagement at 16 as a dance-band pianist. Two years later he left the band to go on his own as a soloist. "The other boys used to razz me," he says. "They said I had no left hand, so I made up my mind to show 'em." Tatum is still sensitive about criticism of his bass, but can claim, with the enthusiastic approval of his fans, that he does more with his left hand than most pianists do with both...