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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...permanently installed at third base, Killebrew found himself playing mostly in the minors. His fielding was sub par, and he struck out too often by going after bad pitches. In sporadic appearances with the Senators, he got into only 113 games in five years, hit a lowly .224. This season Yost was gone (in a trade with Detroit), and Manager Cookie Lavagetto tried nine other candidates before settling on Killebrew. But once the season began, Killebrew took dead aim on the fences, in the space of twelve days hit two homers in each of four games. In the field...
While the Bolshoi Ballet was finishing its New York run in Madison Square Garden last week (see above), the New York City Ballet was staging its season's first new work, providing a striking contrast with the Russians' old-fashioned choreography. The premiere: Episodes, a two-part work set to the symphonic pieces of Viennese Atonalist Anton Webern (1883-1945). Choreographers: two modern masters of the dance, George Balanchine and Martha Graham, who had never worked together before...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family comes eloquently and touchingly alive in the hands of a superb cast. Winner of this season's New York Drama Critics Circle award...
When a Crimson team compiles a 15-2 record and still considers its season a bit of a disappointment, chances are that one of those losses was to Yale. This was the case with this spring's varsity tennis team, which found the Elis, led by Davis Cup nominee Donald Dell, just a little too tough to handle...
Piatigorsky, despite his three losses as number one on the unbeaten freshman team, "has the strokes," according to freshman coach Corey Wynn, to become a major collegiate star, and Woodbury is not far behind him. Schwartzman, ranked seventh on the pre-season ladder, was burdened with laboratory commitments and could only play doubles in a few matches this year; if he has more time next spring, he could help a lot, while Smith, improving steadily, was playing at number eight by the end of the year...