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Though most managers agree that pitching is 75% of the game, O'Neill is well aware that pennants are not won by pitching alone. The rest of the team, much the same line-up as 1950, is strong down the middle. Backing the surehanded double-play combination of Shortstop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Philadelphia Story | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

Died. Sara Allgood, 66, for a quarter-century one of Dublin's Abbey Players (Juno and the Pay cock), in recent years a Hollywood character actress (How Green Was My Valley); of a heart ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Dublin-born, she became at 18 a member ("the youngest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

Unlike such surehanded predecessors as Eliot and E. E. Cummings, who refused to make concessions to ready intelligibility, hese poets seem genuinely to want to be understood. One of them, Harvard Scholar-Poet Richard Wilbur, writes, "I am sure that in all poets there is a deep need to communicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not So Modern Poetry | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Tchaikowski's Second Symphony was more worth bothering about than the Mahler Symphony, although the fact that its melodies are weaker, less distinguished, and less surehanded than those of the later symphonies will probably cause its rejection. But in no way does it merit Cui's contemptuous epithets of "rough...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 1/24/1941 | See Source »

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