Word: slender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scarce Hits. To the stadium's pitching mound for the finale, Brooklyn's Manager Walter Alston sent 23-year-old Johnny Podres, a slender (6 ft. 170 Ibs.) lefthander who had spent most of the season on the Dodger bench. Alston's logical starter, 2O-game winner Don Newcombe, was down with a sore arm. Podres, who "won only nine games in the regular season, had not lasted a full nine innings in league play since June 14. In late summer, the Dodger front office thought of shunting him to the disabled list and bringing...
...choir was directed by slender, thirtyish Edith Möller, who used to be co-director of a district school for underprivileged and "difficult" children in the Saxon town of Obernkirchen (pop. 6,400). When the school building was commandeered for a hospital in 1946, she decided to organize a singing group ("Music has a beneficial influence on children"). She gathered children of local railroaders, lumber dealers, locksmiths, mechanics, polished up the kids' piping tones until they became as smooth as their scrubbed faces, and as crisp as the little girls' curtsies. The late Poet Dylan Thomas...
When the SeaMaster alights on its liquid runway and wants to go ashore, it will ease its slender hull between the floats of a semi-submerged "beaching vehicle." Then it will move toward shore under its own power. A more elaborate auxiliary will be a drydock that can lift the SeaMaster clear of the water when it needs major attention...
...attention of his patrons, Tintoretto heightened the drama of his work, wrenching perspective and (Continued on page 83) filling his canvas with staring, hysterical figures. Parmigianino, following the new Mannerist dictum that form springs ready born from the artist's imagination, created a new kind of beauty, slender women with exquisitely enigmatic faces atop long, Modigliani-like necks. Courtiers, modeling themselves on Machiavelli's precepts, flocked to Bronzino for portraits that showed their faces expressionless masks, only a clutching hand or startled stare betraying their tension...
...With a slender volume of 27 verses, titled Love Poems (World; $2.50) and dedicated cryptically to "S* and the search," sometime Actress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, officially blossomed as a sometime (i.e., printed) poetess. Sample titles from her "diary of feelings": my heart is a wild wave, Snow tenderly in city dawn, honey bees in our eaves, happiness a wing ding . . . is. Excerpts: "he kissed me through a glass closed window /I ... tried to remember as the glass shattered / that this was freedom instead of death"; "the heart is a circle / shaped like a cross . . . / a mold of lava...