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...rain, California's strapping Rafer Johnson, 26 (TiME cover, Aug. 29), and Formosa's wiry Vang Chuan-kwang, 27, had struggled until u p.m. on the first day of the decathlon-the exhausting, ten-event test that would decide which was the world's best all-round athlete. On the second day, after the two men had wearily completed the ninth event (the javelin), statisticians figured that Johnson led Yang by a cliffhanging 67 points...
...Roger Maris served notice that he had finally come into his own: he smashed two homers, a double and a single. He has been going ever since. Says Yankee Superstar Mickey Mantle, just a little wistfully: "I never saw anybody hit so much." What is more, Maris is an all-round star who has speed on the basepaths and a flat-trajectory arm in right field...
...Paddock Otstott (who had spent a year at Southern Methodist University) had impressive records to maintain. At Highland Park, both were presidents of their senior class, both were members of the National Honor Society, and both were recipients of the top award given by the National Honor Society for all-round excellence in grades and extracurricular activities...
...weight is an advantage. He has broad shoulders for power, but very thin legs, and he rides high in the water. This means less drag." In his daily training sessions Clark works out with another Haines pupil: Santa Clara's Chris Von Saltza, the U.S.'s finest all-round girl swimmer. A blonde and matured mermaid at 16, Chris can swim longer and harder than Steve, loves to challenge him in a round of four 400s, or eight 200s. "It's embarrassing," Clark admits, "especially at the long distances, when she makes it too close...
...All-round man of letters and longtime teacher (Harvard, Smith, Amherst, New York University, etc.), Critic Kazin admits to a "highbrow's disdain for Broadway" but also to a plain ticket buyer's irritation with the whole atmosphere of the present theater. "What I object to in the image of man on Broadway," says Kazin* "is that it is concerned largely with 'psychological man,' the man who looks at nothing but himself, his own emotional wants, his own sexual satisfactions, none of which is now news to any of us, and may for once, please...