Word: screamer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Help Me (Vic Damone; Columbia). This title sounds as if it belonged to a screamer, but the tune turns out to be a rather pleasant and intimate plea: "Don't just stand there and stare, help me." Damone sells it smoothly right up to the end, where he can't resist peddling a raucous note...
Pinch-Hitter Eddie Robinson came in for Silvera and flied out. Mickey Mantle, hitless all day, slammed a screamer off Dropo's foot and raced all the way to second. It seemed a wasted effort. Joe Collins flied out, and Hank Bauer walloped a long fly to left. Minnie Minoso had a bead on the ball, got both hands on it-and suddenly it was bouncing behind him for another unbelievable error. Mantle was home, and the Yankees were still alive...
...professional screamer Dorothy Dean '54, who hasn't screamed for an audience since she was 13, is being pressed into service next week to save the voice of leading lady Nora Sayre '54 in the coming Lowell House Opera production of "King Arthur...
...Miss Dean, who has even been used for several people being murdered at the same time, fells the days of pay are gone forever. "Except for chances like the Lowell opera," she says, "there just doesn't seem to be any need for a screamer any more...
...actual announcement. Thanks to the odd time, they had a big story that radio couldn't milk dry before their papers hit the streets. They went after it with oldtime frenzy. Slot men, guessing what the news would be, dug out morgue cuts of MacArthur, dummied up screamer heads on alternate possibilities (MACARTHUR FIRED; MACARTHUR REBUKED; MACARTHUR QUITS). Most morning newspapers stopped their presses, replated, caught most of their run with the big news-and street sales went zooming...