Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fisherman, Inao is tall for a Japanese (5 ft. 9 in., 165 Ibs.), is nicknamed "Sai," which means rhinoceros. He began his baseball career as a catcher ("The school team was short of a catcher, and I did not know the catcher's position was scorned"), switched to pitching in high school; signed by the Nishitetsu Lions, Inao helped pitch his team to pennants in 1956 and 1957, won a total of 56 games in two years. This year, with the season two-thirds gone, the Lions were 10½ games out of first place-despite the fact that...
Mario Del Monaco, 39, tenor, singing opposite Tebaldi in this week's opening Tosca. Endowed with the most glorious top register in all opera, Del Monaco came to the Met in 1952 after serving in the Italian army and making his big-time debut at Covent Garden. Short, stocky and a shouter, Del Monaco commands ringing B-flats that have made a name for him in all the roles-Pagliacci's Canio, Samson, Aïda's Radames-in which vocal volume, height and brilliance are needed simultaneously. His interpretation of Otello, by critical consensus...
...thighs and sighs ("Shiv is mine! I won't let her take him away from me"). The editors packed her, Reporter Benson, a photographer and a staff sob sister onto the next plane to Naples, to confront the unsuspecting Shiv. Twenty-three thousand feet over Anzio, Italy, minutes short of Naples, the Viscount bearing Jane and company and 22 other passengers was rammed by an Italian air force jet. Dead with all the rest: the Sketch four, in pursuit of an essentially phony story...
...still sturdily Horatian: he figures that if he works hard enough he can write and sell almost anything. With pluck, luck and plain prose about the plains he has published 41 novels, sold 20 to the movies, done an additional 54 screen plays, 90 TV scripts and written 350 short stories. The fact that he owns 15% of Wells Fargo does not keep him from writing scripts for other oaters (e.g., Desilu's The Texan) for the truth is, he thinks the market is still too small. "There really aren't enough TV westerns," says Gruber. "Now there...
...discount-rate hike from 2% to 2½% for five of its district banks, but for reasons that had little to do with the threat of inflation. The hike was not designed to tighten credit, explained the Fed, but to bring the central bank rate in line with other short-term rates. Reason: the average yield on Treasury bills has been running three-quarters of 1% above the Fed's 2% discount rate, making it possible for commercial banks to borrow from the Fed at 2% and invest in Treasury bills that pay nearly 3%. By narrowing the spread...