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Weaned in a seedy Baltimore saloon and shunted off to a Catholic trade school for the underprivileged by his bartender father, Ruth was only 19 when he became a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles in the International League and the legal ward of the Oriole manager. In 1915, one season later, he moved up to the majors and won 18 games as a lanky lefthander for the Boston Red Sox. After that he put together winning seasons of 23 and 24 games each, plus victories in three World Series starts, before he changed from pitching to full-time batting...
...Jamaican ghetto under sunny blue skies, the movie looks like a rough etching for a travelogue; a reggae singer on the up and up is bullied and spat down by the local fat king of the record business; he falls for a young sweet 'n innocent ward of the neighborhood preacher, and then shows up the preacher's God-stricken ranting and moaning and raving and groaning as simple lechery; his ambition as a rock star thwarted, he joins the genga trade -- shots of blitz-eyed traders; wearing sunglasses and a leopard skin vest he twirls two pistols in parody...
Salvador Allende was a medical student in Santiago when he helped form the Socialist Party of Chile in the early 1930s. He served briefly as Minister of Health in a left-leaning government in the late thirties, attempting to distribute milk nationwide to ward off gnawing malnutrition...
...simple man who blundered into masterpieces. His innocence was not wholly feigned; in an industry renowned for double-dealing. Ford did not know the meaning of hypocrisy. Did his heroes exalt the virtues of loyalty? So did the man who became known as "Pappy." He used such players as Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen and Harry Carey Jr. so frequently that they became known as the Ford Stock Company. Did his leading men exhibit an austere devotion to their wimmenfolk? The devout Catholic took particular pride in his long marriage to an Irish sweetheart, Mary McBryde Smith. Were Ford characters patriots...
...retired professor of international politics, while mowing his lawn recently in Washington, D.C., suffered severe shock when he became entangled in the live wires of his electric lawn mower. When he regained consciousness in the emergency ward, he did not know how many children he had, or recall that he was supposed to make a trip to California the next...