Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Going after a soaring first-inning smash by Pittsburgh's Ralph Kiner, Ted threw himself high and hard against the left-field wall. He caught the ball, and went on to play for eight innings, driving in a run and making another hair-raising catch. But his left elbow hurt. After the game (the National League won for the first time in five years, 4-3), X rays' showed why: Ted had been playing for eight innings with a fractured elbow...
...Hollywood and Broadway producer; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. As a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, he wrote such hits as Sonny Boy, Memory Lane, Somebody Loves Me. In the '30s, turned moviemaker, he produced five Shirley Temple heart-throbbers. In 1939-40 he tried Broadway, produced three smash musicals (DuBarry Was a Lady, Louisiana Purchase, Panama Hattie] within a year...
Bestselling Author James Michener, whose Tales of the South Pacific inspired the Broadway musical smash, was back from his wartime haunts with a new book...
...season whose musicomedies were resolutely undistinguished, musical drama -the one new form to establish itself on Broadway-strengthened its hold. Gian-Carlo Menotti's smash hit The Consul (along with The Cocktail Party] had every cocktail party in Manhattan buzzing. Marc Blitzstein's Regina died at the boxoffice, but it was very much alive on the stage...
Pankey singled, stole second and third, and second on Frank Nolan's hot smash to third...