Word: slickness
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...weary veterans and untried rookies, have settled down into a hustling ball club that last week led the Braves by three games and the Dodgers by 2½. The Giants have solid pitching anchored by Sad Sam Jones (15-11), a morose-faced Negro with a crackling curve, and slick Johnny Antonelli (16-6), the pop-off lefty whose feud with newsmen is so bitter that he issues statements only through Manager Bill Rigney (dubbed by the press "John's other voice"). To hit, the Giants have the bull-necked Cepeda and the wondrous McCovey. Out in centerfield, Willie...
Kentuckian Warren, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for All the King's Men (based on the saga of Huey Long), has turned out a drawerful of novels since then that are exciting, expertly written, and disappointingly slick. In The Cave, he stays true to form...
...infuriated when officials gave the Gold Cup race to Detroit's Gale V, after he had apparently won it for Seattle in Miss Thriftway, that he moved forthwith to Seattle. He won the Gold Cup for Seattle in both 1956 and 1957, became a local hero with a slick disk-jockey show that leaned toward cool jazz. Muncey's specialty: winning the races on the turns...
...ahead without the old man's money." After another effort, Mack the Knife, Gary remembers Bing again: "That's the most applause we've had since we told Dad we were leaving home." With a surprisingly pleasant, well-paced melange of songs, soft-shoe dances and slick patter, the Crosby boys manage to suggest that they intend to keep right on working until they have an act worthy of the Crosby name...
Last Train from Gun Hill (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a slick saddle-soap opera of TV's "adult'' school, with enough shallow currents of sociology, Greek tragedy and child psychology to titillate horse-opera highbrows...