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...last two games were carnage incarnate. The Yankees scored 20 runs on 26 hits, including seven doubles, a triple and two home runs (by Reserve Outfielders Hector Lopez and John Blanchard). The Reds, on the other hand, continued to swoon at the very sight of Yankee pitching. Outfielders Vada Pinson (.343 season average) and Frank Robinson (.323) managed only five hits between them in five games. Poker-faced Pitcher Ford extended his string of scoreless World Series innings to 32, and broke Babe Ruth's favorite record. For a team that had every right to crow, the Yankees were...
...being an issue, do not be fooled. Religion is the issue in this campaign. Instead of being garbed in a brown derby with a Bowery twang, it comes in a Brooks Brothers suit, clipped accents, and a Pepsodent smile that causes old women and bobby-soxers to swoon and mouth inanities...
Admittedly this is a debatable opinion; those who swoon at "Sweet Nightingale" or "Fain Would I Wed a Fair Young Maid" will contest strongly any attempt to shroud Dyer-Bennett with the critic's cloak of scorn. Yet for one who seeks in a folk singer a versatility extending beyond repertory, including a versatility of personality, Dyer-Bennett falls short of being engaging...
...pious Japanese celebrated the rites of spring by making the traditional round of Buddhist temples and the tombs of their ancestors, thousands of Japanese "lowteen" girls in braids, pony tails, hula shirts, black slacks and white sweaters celebrated in their own way: jamming Tokyo's Kyoritsu Theater to swoon and scream at the pelvic pulsations of guitar-twanging "rockabilly" idols. Said a dazed stagehand last week, trying to describe the massed sound of their screams: "Like an auto suddenly braked at 100 m.p.h...
Steady, Now. But when he likes, Philip can turn on a charm that is dazzling, does it with an easy irreverence royalty seldom achieves. Walking down a line of spectators, he noticed a young girl pretending to swoon as he passed. Philip grinned at her: "Steady, now." On another occasion, a young matron took a look at him and murmured: "Mmmmm." Philip heard her, looked her up and down, and said: "MMMMMMmmm." He may examine a Buckingham Palace menu in elaborate French, remark cheerily to the guests: "Ah, good. Fish and chips again...