Word: sal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Don't Cry (Columbia), but Sal Mineo's lustrous brown eyes get mighty moist in this movie while he fends off all manner of ruffians, twerps and smart alecks. As a 17-year-old paragon of adolescence in a Georgia orphanage, "Big Fella" Mineo stoutly defends the "little fellas" from harm, sturdily resists the temptations and blandishments of a bevy of Bad Examples. In hammering out his selfless philosophy of life, Sal learns through bitter experience to reject the cynical green applesauce of an opportunistic main-chancer (Thomas Carlin), and to sneer at the diesel-crass plutocracy...
...movie hints that deep similarities exist between the cozy orphanage and a Dachau-like state prison near by. Sal suddenly finds himself up to his downy cheeks in an escape engineered by two desperate jailbirds, whom he met and befriended while they were sweating over some local ditchdigging. Impressed into helping them make a swampy getaway, Sal gradually gets into his hardening skull the idea that no bad man is all bad. The corollary: some of society's watchdogs (such as sadistic Prison Warden J. Carrol Naish) and false heroes (the millionaire trucker) can be absolutely no good...
This is Brooklyn's year--to lose. With the loss of Jackie Robinson and Carl Erskine, and the slowdown of Roy Campanella and Peewee Reese, the Bums are a shell of their former magnificent selves. The pitching of Don Newcombe, Don Drysdale, the aging Sal Maglie, and Clem Labine, plus the hitting of Junior Gilliam, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, and Carl Furillo will keep the Dodgers in contention...
Right fielder Matt Botsford was the big hitter for the Crimson, with a solo home run in the second. The ball was well hit to left field carrying just beyond the glove of Jumbo Sal DeAngelo...
Cord was not the only one to make a killing on the deal. The claims had been discovered in 1953 by a La Sal, Utah ranch foreman named Zeke Johnson, whose son Jimmy was one of Steen's first miners. Steen, short of cash, had asked Jimmy Johnson to find a camp cook, and Jimmy talked his mother into taking on the job. In return, Steen gratefully told the Johnsons to look over some promising rock formations ten miles north of Mi Vida. Zeke Johnson did, and staked out his claims. They were so promising that Cord...