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...relaxed as a picnic, and seemingly just as impromptu. As the curtain went up, a man in a grey double-breasted suit strolled on to the nearly bare stage, clarinet in hand. Taking his time, he eventually reached a stool in a downstage corner. He tootled a few warm-up phrases; then the orchestra in the pit joined in a discreet background from Aaron Copland's Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra. Thereafter, Jerome Robbins' Pied Piper kept its happy air of the impromptu, but it was scarcely relaxed...
Last Sunday's revival began promptly at 2:30, but Owen remained off-stage while a warm-up man kindled an audience which consisted mainly of old people. The dapper m.c. led several communal hymns, but most of the singing was done by an on-stage group of "Christian Youth." As a group the "Youth" averaged about forty years old--a lone teenager clasped his hands to his face and shook nervously during the first hymn. (During the second hymn he bolted into the wings.) There was an accordion number next, rendered by two girls in white. One of them...
...Cards had a seventh-inning lead, 3-2, but the Yankees had loaded the bases with two out. Lou Gehrig was on first, Bob Meusel on second, Earle Combs on third, and slugging Tony Lazzeri was up. Pete ambled sleepily to the mound, took a couple of warm-up throws and struck Lazzeri out on three pitches, went on to save the St. Louis lead and win the World Championship. Later, Pete reminisced about his second pitch to Lazzeri, which Lazzeri had hit whistling down the third-base line-barely foul. Said he: "A foot made the difference between being...
...right side of the Crimson line again provided the main scoring punch. Regular right wing Ben Goldstein stepped on a ball in Friday's pre-game warm-up and sprained his ankle...
After a few warm-up parries, one of them made a serious thrust by bringing up the fact that Harry Truman's candidate in the Missouri Democratic Senate primary-Emery Allison-had lost. Would the President support the Democrat who won, anyway...