Word: robin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best parts of the film, however, do not come under the sight gag category. Then, as now, parody was one of the movies' strongest sources of comedy, whether it was Will Rogers playing Robin Hood, or Ben Turpin as the latin lover. The best visual humor, only fleetingly dealt with here, was really the "dictionary of facial expressions" which could turn answering the telephone into a momentous occasion...
...Phillies will probably finish in last place, but they are not that bad a team. They have the batting champion in Richie Ashburn, an aging but effective pitcher in Robin Roberts, and some young players who could come on. Wally Post and Harry Anderson are the best of the young players and Ray Semproch heads a string of competent pitchers
...tournament was run in round-robin style, every entry dueling each of the others once...
...Robin's Eggs. In Nottingham, England, retired Coldstream Guards Major A.M.G. Beattie swells his income by selling acorns from Sherwood Forest, mostly to U.S golf clubs, schools, agricultural colleges and longbow-struck little boys...
...best world tournament performance to date, the U.S. nationals crushed East Germany last Friday, 9 to 2, to clinch a spot in the six-team, round-robin finals. Captain Bill Cleary, his brother, and Owen all scored for the Americans. The three ex-Crimson aces have been less effective since then, as the U.S. teams has absorbed two straight lickings by the Russians...