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...World Champion New York Yankees just how this delicate adjustment of worry and ease is supposed to work. It was the last of five grapefruit-circuit games between the Yankees and the Sox; each team had won two games. In the first inning Williams came up wearing a solemn and purposeful frown; he looked at one pitch from Yankee Pitcher Bob Porterfield, found it not to his liking, and swung on the second. The ball took off and sailed over the right-field fence 340 ft. away. Since the Yankees did not score at all, that was the ball game...
Last week, tall, solemn Jimmy Lewis and his chief lieutenant, wisecracking little Jimmy Radeck, 13, flew to the capital at the expense of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch (combined circ. 207,784) to get a pat on the back from G-Man J. Edgar Hoover himself...
Nothing, by Henry Green. An amusing inquiry into the paradox of solemn youth and flaming age in postwar Britain, by the author of Loving (TIME, March...
...stylized as a Restoration comedy and as antisocial as a Marx Brothers movie, Nothing squeezes the juice out of the proposition that Britain's younger generation has turned hopelessly dull and solemn, leaving most of the fun & games to the oldsters. True, says Henry Green, the older generation may be slightly absurd in its romantic nostalgias, even more than slightly devious in its morals-but look at the postwar youngsters...
Nothing is a pointed poke at solemn youth, but the poke is so obviously accompanied by so many friendly winks that even its victims will enjoy...