Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best players in the history of the game had played like bushers. Shoeless Joe Jackson, perhaps the greatest outfielder of them all, was unaccountably awkward under easy flies; Swede Risberg, the sure-handed shortstop, was fielding grounders with his feet; First Baseman Chick Gandil seemed asleep on the sack. But sawed-off Kerr had pitched his heart out against the Cincinnati Reds (who took the series, 5-3) and won. And not until a year later did Dickie or anyone else know for sure that he had been throwing for thieves-that his laggard teammates were the notorious Black...
...predict that that picture of Marilyn Monroe in TIME, May 5, will bring the sale of sack dresses to a screeching halt. Hell, that might as well have been Vaughn Monroe. JACK SHERIDAN JOHN HOWBERT Denver...
...rockets going off at once in different directions. Up went a new Sputnik. On the streets of cities thousands of miles apart angry youthful throngs rioted, bent on demonstration and destruction; whatever else they were mad about, they usually found their way to the U.S. Information library to sack and burn it. Was it all coincidence...
...blessing of Chekhov's Actress-Widow Olga Knipper Chekhova. Moreover, Londoners, to whom Chekhov is as familiar as Shaw or Sheridan, seemed to approve. The first-night audiences -including such personages as Defense Minister Duncan Sandys and Lady Churchill -gave the group nine curtain calls. And one sack-clad miss added the awed, ultimate compliment: "You don't need to speak Russian to understand...
...author of this Candide-like scrap of philosophizing is one Joseph Schweik, private first class in the Czech army during World War I. Cheerful Sad-Sack Schweik first turned up back in the 1920s in Czech Novelist Jaroslav Hasek's antimilitary satire, The Good Soldier Schweik. Last week he popped up on the stage of Manhattan's City Center in the premiere of the late Robert Kurka's operatic version and won a warm welcome from audiences in the New York City Opera's spring season of contemporary American works...