Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves out of jams instead of yanking them at the first sign of trouble. "If I keep taking you out," he said, "you'll never learn how to pitch. You can't keep looking back over your shoulder at the bullpen." Forced to pace themselves carefully, the youngster starters worked on control, wasted few pitches. Little League Alumnus Joey Jay, 26, dumped by the Milwaukee Braves after seven disappointing seasons (lifetime record: 24 wins, 24 losses), came alive and won 21 games to lead the National League. Cocky Jim O'Toole, 24, with only 17 victories...
Stanley Woodward was sports editor of the Miami News when I was writing baseball in 1952. As a youngster then, I thought all sports stories had to be filled with belts, twin-killings, and four-ply blasts...
...Shirer writes with dignity, authority and a total lack of adult condescension. Without blinking the problem of evil, he captures the demonic fascination of Hitler, whose life was essentially the success story of a monster. Like most of the Landmark series, this book is for the keen and sober youngster who is ready to put away childish things and become, like every man, a child of the time...
Slowed on the Circuit. Jackson's facility is the result of a schooling unusual in jazz-13 years of private study in piano and theory as a youngster in Philadelphia, followed by four years at Juilliard and additional work at New York University. For five years, Jackson scored musicals for MGM, finally quit over the limitations of the job. Jackson, now 42, was slowed up on the club circuit because, says a friend, using Hollywood's favorite word, he had "too much musical integrity." He was also inclined, when cocktail conversation annoyed him, to slam the keyboard...
Study in Contrasts. Except in their musical tastes, Co-Founders Eaton and Smith are as much a study in contrasts as last week's program. Son of a Methodist minister, Pennsylvania-born Johnny Eaton. 26, started composing and playing the piano as a youngster, but he went to Princeton to prepare for a law career. Work with Roger Sessions, and the success of a couple of fine jazz albums that he cut for Columbia with his own student combo, changed his mind. After touring the U.S. with Flutist Herbie Mann and a jazz combo, he settled down to serious...