Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Same (Marlene Dietrich and Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). Testimonials in favor of love from a globetrotter and a stay-at-home. World-wise Marlene says, "It's delicious in Rome, it's delightful in Nome," while the more rustic Rosemary finds "It still fills the bill on the back porch at home...
...Butters smashed a long triple to centerfield with two outs in the second inning. Tim Wise walked, and when he seemed to be caught in an attempted double steal, feinted back and forth allowing Butters to score before he was run down...
Navy evened the score in the top of the fourth. Centerfielder Walter Shaw was safe at first when Crimson second baseball Walt Greeley muffed a pop fly. Shaw moved to third on a sacrifice and infield out, and then scurried across the plate when Tim Wise juggled a hard grounder down the third base line...
...Crimson took back the lead, this time for keeps, in the bottom of the same inning. Captain Russ Johnson reached first on a fielder's choice, and streaked to third on Bob Gremp's hard double. Following a walk to Butters, Wise caught one of Middle pitcher Dick Murphy's pitches and smashed it to deep centerfield. Shaw went back to make the catch, but Johnson scored...
Michael Mary, General Masters, also has a difficult role. The transition from the hard, world-wise crynie of the first act to the man with a past of blazing idealism is a difficult one, and I am not sure that the play fully explains it. Mabry, however, skillfully controls Master's staccato efficiency and constrained pleading with the general. For Masters to be clear, we must see him as one who flight his causes with objective, calculating tactile, rather than the more burning idealism of Benson, the state department official who has been subpoenaed before a Congressional investigating committee...