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...Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, is a burly, stubby man with an air of natural vigor about him. His thick eyebrows are black, the color of his face is high, and the flesh around his nose and jaw inclines to coarseness. He moves fast, with a short, brisk stride, and makes rapid gesticulations with his short-fingered, square-palmed hands when he talks. (He is not often silent.) There is nothing light or graceful about him when he stands chunkily on his own two feet, but on a horse he looks as well as any man could wish...
...Ward, who finally hit his stride with a fine three-hit effort against Brown last Tuesday, will be available for relief...
...only more so. The big blonde, like the big hitter, is a tremendous individual performer. Just as there are those who cry that Williams subordinates the greater good of Boston for the name and fame of Ted, one may also argue that Miss Channing shoves her cast off stride by dominating the Shubert stage every time she steps on it. As for me, I'd place the Bosox in the second division without Williams and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes even lower without Miss Channing...
Leaving for the usual Bermuda trip this Saturday: the first team and six rplacements will take on a Bermuda squad, Dartmouth, the British Navy team, and Yale. The team's greenness doesn't give it much hope against tried opponents, but the team should hit its stride by the time it returns...
Much of the credit belongs to Lucille, a redheaded, uninhibited comedienne who takes pratfalls and pie-throwings in her stride, manages to add an extra wriggle or a rubber-faced doubletake to each funny line. Cuban-born Desi Arnaz gets enough masculine authority into his role to keep Lucy from degenerating into a Dagwood and Blondie farce. Three writers turn out scripts that bring flashes of grown-up humor to such standard subjects as amateur theatricals and wedding anniversaries. Says Lucille: "We try to be an average married couple getting into unaverage situations...