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...Eckart were authentic when they must be, fantastic whenever possible. The entire production had all the markings of Adler-Ross; George Abbett's flawless timing and pacc, a banjo in the orchestra, and a score of pearls dangling over a unique script. Damn Yankees, it seems safe enough to wager, will be around when the hurly burly's done, when the Series is lost...
Miller, in his green checked jacket and yellow necktie, has also freed theology from its traditional dullness. On a wager with Professor harry Levin in the late 1940's, Miller began and undergraduate course on Christian theologians. He and his class discuss men from Augustine to Kicrkegard, but hardly in the usual way. To illustrate the meaning of the essence of God, Miller drew not on books but on baseball, and to show relative good and evil, the red Sox and the yankees were his illustrations...
Trial Run. In Eureka. Mont., Pat Wager, candidate for town constable, went on a campaign tour of several bars, decided he was as good as elected, jailed three citizens, landed in jail himself for disturbing the peace...
Actor Peck is cast as a jobless U.S. clerk who falls victim in London to a wonderfully impractical joke. Two rich British brothers have made a wager: one bets that a man with no other resources could live for a month on the credit he could cadge simply by flashing a legitimate million-pound note; the other bets that he would sooner or later have to cash the bill. Peck is picked, and told that if he succeeds he can name any job he wants...
Umpteen million amateur photographers will read the article about George Tames's picture of President Eisenhower [TIME, Feb. 15], and I'll wager 90% of them will wonder what kind of camera . . . what f. opening . . . what shutter speed . . . what light source...