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SAMMY DAVIS JR. SINGS MEL TORME'S CALIFORNIA SUITE (Reprise). As a singer, Mel Torme is known as "the velvet fog"; as a composer he is known scarcely at all. Yet Torme is responsible for at least four songs that have become standards in the repertory. Sammy Davis Jr. gives A Stranger in Town a stronger performance than Torme's original, and his rendition of Born to Be Blue is the best since the late Mildred Bailey made it her own. While the California Suite is billed as Torme's "major composition" on this album...
Yogi Berra's pitcher, Rookie Sensation Mel Stottlemyre, had nothing wrong with him that a good defense could not have cured. In the fourth inning, the roof fell in. A single, a walk, a nifty double steal, bad throws by Shortstop Phil Linz, Second Baseman Richardson and Outfielder Mantle, and the score was 3-0, Cardinals. Out went Stottlemyre; in came Reliever Al Downing, who threw four pitches, one of them a ball. The others: a homer, a single, a double. Out went Downing; in came Rollie Sheldon...
William Saroyan's Talking to You is a play of no special merit, but excellent acting and direction make up for the playwright's vapidness. An exuberant, brilliantly unaffected performance by Mel Hopson leads the work of a fine cast, ably directed by David Wheeler...
Allen has been gabbing for pay ever since his student days at the University of Alabama, when, as Mel Israel, he broadcast Alabama baseball and football games and was so renowned for his glibness and precocity (he matriculated at 15) that he was nicknamed Skyrocket. Son of a dry-goods merchant, he studied law but before he started practice he got a call to big-time broadcasting and could not resist it. Almost at once he was assigned to the Yankees, and the Yankees have been a major part of his life for 25 years. He has never married...
...Cards broke a 0-0 tie with three runs off rookie Mel Stottlemyre in the fourth. Ken Boyer opened with a single and Dick Groat walked. Tim McCarver grounded to Joe Pepitone, who forced Groat at second, but Phil Lins's return throw was wild and Boyer scored...