Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Jimmy Dorsey, 45, sweet-and-swing saxophone-playing bandleader; by Jane Porter Dorsey, 39, (her complaint: "If anyone brought records by some other musician into the house, [Jimmy] would smash them"); after 21 years of marriage; in Los Angeles...
...Babe Ruth? Against Boston's right-handed Bill Voiselle, Right-hander Kiner picked a fat curve and put his 195 Ibs. into an easy, carefully grooved swing. The ball cleared the left-field fence for home run No. 51. Three innings later, he put No. 52 in the same place. To Pittsburghers, who head for the exits the moment Kiner has taken his last turn at bat, even Babe Ruth's record mark of 60 (in 1927) still seemed within Kiner's reach...
...almost no stride at all as he meets the ball. The usual forward stride, he thinks, is a waste motion and throws a power hitter off balance. To get maximum power into his own swats, Leftfielder Kiner uses the same delicate combination that is found in a perfect golf swing-pivot, wrist-snap and timing...
...last 20 years, while flightier musicians have run off after every new craze in jazz, swing or bebop, Wayne King has stuck tenaciously to the waltz. This week, his single-mindedness rewarded with a whopping $200,000 TV contract, the "Waltz King" began a 40-week show for Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) over a Midwestern network (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., C.S.T...
Although no pre-game effort is scheduled, Manager Paul B. Finney '60 says the Band will open half-time with a marching "Columbia" from which it will swing into a marching "Harvard...