Word: pitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sales Pitch. In Randolph Township, N.J., Repairman John Notari was fined $275 for paying teen-agers to break neon signs so that he could get the job of repairing them...
...vehicle (tank, jeep or train) twelve miles away is easy to identify. A tank sounds very much like the clanking of its tracks. A wheeled vehicle makes a whine that increases in pitch as its speed increases. A man walking toward the radar sounds like "ump-ump-ump,"-each "ump" being Tipsy's reaction to the relatively fast movement of his legs as he takes a step. A woman's skirt has no effect, but she moves her arms differently and swings her hips more, so the radar sound that comes from her has more frills, lacking...
...Giant strength is the team's balance. It leads the league in no major category, but has good first-line pitching (Johnny Antonelli. 14-5; Sam Jones, 14-10), streak-hitting Centerfielder Willie ("Say Hey") Mays (.301), who can still ignite eight ordinary men with his extraordinary play, and First Baseman Orlando Cepeda (.321), who can slug the ball out of sight (19 home runs). Shortstop Ed Bressoud plugs a leaky infield, and stubby Catcher Hobie Landrith gives the Giants a holler guy who seems to carry a mitt on one hand and a gavel in the other...
...GOLDEN TREASURY OF JOHN BETJEMAN (Spoken Arfs). In a series of dry and witty poems, read with impeccable comic pitch, the author (TIME, Feb. 2) recalls an England of "retired schoolmasters, retired colonels and handsome, healthy children'' with bodies "bursting into teens." In "amatory" mood, he sings his passion for a tennis partner...
WILLIAM FAULKNER (MGM) reads selections from his novels-The Sound and the Fury, Light in August-in a voice as dry and fragile as a wisteria pod. The interest here is not in the pitch of line or phrase but in the incantatory plod of the Faulknerian periods, straddling page after page in the exhortation of meanings more felt than heard...