Word: vic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lively Ones (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of a summer musical show with Vic Damone as host. Among his first guests are Joanie Sommers, Count Basic and Benny Goodman...
Died. Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, 49, 23rd Baron Audley, sometime playwright, heir to one of England's most ancient titles (dating back to 1313) and third husband (of 13 months) of Actress Sarah Churchill, Sir Winston's star-crossed daughter (her first husband, Comedian Vic Oliver, divorced her in 1945; her second, Society Photographer Antony Beauchamp, committed suicide in 1957); of a heart attack; in Granada, Spain...
...always equal to the task given. Before the siege of Harfleur, his "Once more unto the breach" harangue does not ring as it ought; it is a clarinet instead of a clarion (but it is still an improvement over Laurence Harvey's weak effort with the Old Vic a few seasons...
...look at the American selections quickly shows the changing character of the League. Gone are Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Roger Maris, Minnie Minoso, Vic Power, Norm Cash and other big names of the past. Only two players catcher Earl Battey (.270) and left fielder Leon Wagner (.333) repeat from last year's team, although the incomparable Mickey Mantle (.310) won the vote despite his injury. Neophyte Pepitone (.273) is the only Yankee in the starting team, and Zoilo Versalles (.283), Minnesota's shortstop, is practically an unkown. Some old reliables, such as Nellie Fox (.277) at second, Al Kaline...
...Huxley sails far-distant waters. She is part Anne Morrow Lindbergh ("Listen to the sea-only listen"), part Lee Strasberg ("Become an animal; make the noises your animal makes; feel as it feels; think as it thinks; eat as it eats"), part Vic Tanny ("Hang a tether ball on a nail; punch it; punch, punch, punch"). She is a sort of Reader's Digest to the world's philosophies, dipping briefly into Zen, Yoga, evangelism, estheticism and existentialism. She dips as well, unfortunately, into sheer medical foolishness, instructs readers in search of momentary relief from irritation to plunge...