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...writers' poll voted him the best ball caller in the business. Relying on his "fast thumb" (he once ejected 18 players from an exhibition game), Dascoli insisted on absolute obedience in every game he worked. But good as he was, Dascoli committed the umpire's unforgivable sin: he lost his temper in public. Fortnight ago, for calling National League President Warren Giles "incompetent and spineless," Dascoli was summarily dismissed. Explained Giles, who is also a fast man with a thumb: "The best umpire is the most inconspicuous-except when he's calling a play...
...COMEDIES: Sir Michael Redgrave stars in Graham Greene's The Complaisant Lover, in which the author grins rather than glooms over sin; the play, a solid London hit, involves a love triangle, with a cuckolded dentist at the base (Nov. 1). Julie Harris will appear as a chambermaid employed by a French millionaire in Marcel Achard's The Naked Truth. Playwright John Patrick (The Teahouse of the August Moon) returns to Broadway with Everybody Loves Opal, starring Eileen Heckart...
...family when your family's own survival is questionable, that is the use of a certainly evil means to attain an uncertain end; it assumes you know the end. The Christian counsel here is that one tries to do what is least evil and asks forgiveness for his sin...
...schoolteacher who lives in a rickety house on the edge of town, with two cats, a goldfish and a parrot. She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine." But Esta Maude has a flaming secret vice, a racy, sin-red sports car that she drives like the wind of a Friday midnight. Author-Illustrator Cummings manages to be folksy, foxy, and covertly Freudian all at the same time, and his book will appeal to any child who has conjured up an off-hours double life for teacher...
...spire of her reputation, unwavering after three decades, rests on three volumes containing but 22 long and short stories-Flowering Judas (1930), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower (1944). Last week at 71, still pretty, witty and as talkative as ever ("It's always been my sin"), Katherine Anne Porter announced that she had placed the massive capstone of her distinguished career: a 160,000-word novel, her first, scheduled for spring publication by Atlantic-Little, Brown. Sighed Author Porter: "It feels like the end of a very prolonged pregnancy...