Word: swinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size statue of England's gallant Sir Walter Raleigh was slated for unveiling in London's Whitehall Park this week. But same day, Britain's National Society of Non-Smokers plans to celebrate the 341st anniversary of Explorer Raleigh's beheading by a royal ax-swinger. Reason: taking a leaf from the pipe of Virginia's Indians, Sir Walter is accused of being the villain who introduced tobacco into England...
...team in hitting (.328) and stolen bases (17), simply outruns deep fly balls. Says Manager Freddy Hutchinson: "He's already got Willie Mays' range." Robinson is so painfully shy that he has little to say even around his Redleg teammates. But at bat Robinson is a power swinger who leans his head perilously close to the plate to get a good view of the pitch, last week hit a grand-slam home run as his team beat Milwaukee 9-8. In 1956, at the age of 20, Robinson broke into the Redlegs' lineup, promptly hit 38 home...
...playground. Quickly the cart pullers-parishioners of nearby St. Philip's Church-set up three canvas walls (painted to resemble an East End living room) on the rough-planked cart, tapped a nearby flat for electricity to operate the homemade floodlights. Then the bell swinger-Father Oswald, Anglican priest in charge of St. Philip's and a member of Britain's Society of St. Francis-blessed his troupe of parishioners, who made the sign of the cross and climbed onto the cart to revive a medieval custom, the morality play...
Stepping onto the visitors gallery, she shouted: "Boys! Don't cat that infernal stuff. It's poison." The students replied by tossing cigars and cigarettes toward Carrie, but the Kansas hatchet-swinger refused to give up and descended into the fray. She slapped faces, seized cigars and pipes, tried to sell hatches for her crusade, and left only after 2,000 stamping students forced her back onto the electric car for Boston...
While most of Japan's movies are for domestic audiences, the biggest producers, lured by the success of Rashomon and Ugetsu in the U.S., were scrambling last week to release films for the American market. The export pictures are mostly "sword swingers," Oriental versions of the U.S. horse opera, in which Japan's feudal swordsmen are the heroes. Tokyo's Toho (Eastern Treasure) Co. plans to release its $350,000 Seven Samurai, which won a prize at this year's Venice Festival, early in 1955 as "a Japanese western" (33,000 extras, 2,300 horses). Next...