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...Like It." So precise is the teamwork that a single mistake by one man can destroy the handiwork of ten. So many are the complexities that connoisseurs argue endlessly in a mysterious lingo over slotbacks, stunters and buttonhooks. Even the innocent are mesmerized. Action piles upon action, thrill upon guaranteed thrill, and all with such bewildering speed that at the end the fans are literally limp. At New York's Yankee Stadium, where 63,000 hardy souls braved sleet to watch the Giants edge Cleveland 17-13, a man turned fondly to his wildly cheering wife. "Honey," he said...
...scared off by the prospect of a dull ball game. The Crimson will probably make it close just to give the fans a thrill...
...seems simultaneously intended as a romantic idyl, a secret thrill for naughty little boys of all ages, a modern myth of the mother goddess. The myth declares itself in symbols too insistent-the child is flatly called by the name of the goddess herself; her lover brings her a weathercock, bird of Apollo, god of light; and at the end an evergreen, tree of Dionysus, god of darkness, stands above his corpse...
Along the River Spree and the miles of adjacent canals where East meets West in Berlin, Communist floodlights play constantly across the water, shore guards listen for every suspicious splash, and East Berlin patrol boats watch for the smallest ripple. Hence the thrill of West Berliners last week at the tale of two East Berlin lads who not only swam to safety, but also dared to swim back across to Communist territory to show their pals the route...
...sentiments belong to James Jackson Kilpatrick, 41, editor of the Richmond, Va., News Leader and one of the most gifted and eloquent spokesmen for the Old South. They sputter all through his new book, The Southern Case for School Segregation (Crowell-Collier; $3.95). But though diehard racists will doubtless thrill to its themes, as they have thrilled for years to Kilpatrick's racist editorials in the News Leader, the book is really a swan song-Editor Kilpatrick's last roar of defiance in what even he now concedes is a lost cause...