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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...other Giant pitchers were performing wonders: in the course of running up a seven-game winning streak, they recorded three consecutive shutouts. But Sad Sam Jones is the mainstay of the Giants' pennant hopes, and no one knows it better than Manager Bill Rigney. Says he: "In trie past 15 years the only Giant pitcher I'd compare with Jones is Sal Maglie for getting cute, for making that ball curve or take off, and Sam is a damn sight faster...
...most "committed" line of lonesco's career, Olivier shouts past the descending curtain: "I'm not giving up!" Chateau en Suede, Frangoise Sagan's first play, following her increasingly dull novels, is the biggest Paris hit in many seasons. Sagan's Castle in Sweden is 18th century, down to the costumes of the inhabitants, who seem like characters from a summery Watteau canvas driven inside by the chill of autumn-but the time is 1960. Dressing up is this family's mildest eccentricity. Beautiful Eleonore is devoted to her husband Hugo, but this has never...
...with his nerve ends jumping like a field of grasshoppers, Blaydon flees home to England, to await the next volume of his saga. In parting from his friend-enemy, Groarke, Blaydon says accusingly: "You are Ireland, the same the English have been running their heads into for the past fifteen hundred years." Groarke answers: "No. I'm not like Ireland, I'm like life...
...masters. It will fool them, like Author Olesha. While the bosses will expect it to work mechanical marvels, "What will it actually do, their idol, the machine? It will sing our love songs, the silly love songs of the dying century, and gather the flowers of the past era. It will fall in love, become jealous, cry. dream...
Banks v. Marines. What spells doom for Trumpet is its balance sheet. No one knows this better than its president. John Ridgely Warren, an aging wonder boy with a Roman nose, whose past careers have rocketed and fizzled like Roman candles "Ridge" Warren has beefed up Trumpet's circulation, but the magazine's advertising is a sickly trickle, its creditors are edgy and the bank is poised to snip its credit life line. Two-thirds of View centers on Ridge's hectic bids to bring the marines of high finance to the rescue...