Word: dodgerism
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...baseball journalists of this town, sometimes called New York, have gone the way of all flash," complained the Morning Telegraph's Columnist Barney Nagler. He had a point. The season was less than a week old and the writers were already reporting everything in terms of records. Example: Dodger Carl Furillo hit four home runs in his first three games and a wire service touted him as "11 games ahead of Babe Ruth's record 1927 home-run pace." "And so it goes," moaned Columnist Nagler, "ad boredom...
Doubtful Decisions. The Dodgers' performance was all the more remarkable because, to hear the sports writers tell it in the preseason windjamming, the Brooklyn "Bums" were headed for nothing but trouble. All through spring training, the press sniped at Manager "Smokey" Alston with ill-mannered regularity. When Jackie Robinson had a beef about how seldom he was playing, he got columns of space in which to howl. When Catcher Roy Campanella had a complaint about his spot in the batting order (No. 8), his words were rushed into type. Dodger President Walter O'Malley wondered out loud...
Tonight in Samarkand (by Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Semple Jr.) takes its theme from the famous Oriental legend-about the inevitability of fate-that also suggested John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. The doom-dodger in this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because...
...When the English butler entered the luxurious bedchamber on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue to awaken his master one morning last week, he saw a ghastly sight. Supine on the wall-to-wall carpet lay the master-46-year-old Serge Rubinstein, millionaire, financial finagler, satyr and draft dodger-bound, gagged, strangled and quite dead. The body was dressed in midnight-blue silk pajamas, and the room was a picture of studied disarray...
Since July 10, Willie has hit only nine homers, but his batting average has climbed steadily from .328 to .342, placing him second behind Dodger Duke Snider (.348). More important, Willie has batted in 105 runs and scored 106-more than any other Giant. In centerfield, he still makes the acrobatic catches and long pegs that save ball games...