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...will enjoy the tight camerawork on the musicians. The closeup of Brookmeyer masked behind sunglasses and Guiffre bouncing energetically around the bandshell is a treat; so is the intense concentration of Hamilton during his solo. It is a commonplace of jazz that much rapport is lost in a large all-star program like Newport, and shots like these more than compensate...
...hands, Center Walt Dukes of the Detroit Pistons joked his way through a Syracuse, N.Y., locker room one evening last week snapping one distorted picture after another with wildly exaggerated incompetence. His purpose: to relax his teammates on the West squad for the National Basketball Association's annual all-star game. Of all Jokester Dukes's teammates, none had so much cause for tension as the Cincinnati Royals' Oscar ("The Big O") Robertson, the only rookie to crash the starting lineup of either the East or West team. But, as always, Robertson was the loosest...
...Robertson scored 23 points (he sat out much of the second half), fed teammates for 14 baskets, a league record for all-star games. For putting on one of the greatest one-man shows in the history of the N.B.A., Robertson was given the game's most-valuable-player award, another proof that at the age of 22 he has become the finest all-round player in basketball. Said the West's Coach Paul Seymour: "He was excellent. He was great. He was spectacular...
Time for Analysis. Result was that when the U.S. all-star Olympic team trounced Russia's professional amateurs 81-57 at Rome last summer, the commissars of Soviet sport could only conclude that the "inevitable triumph" of Communism on the basketball court had been sabotaged. Auto-criticism was clearly called for. Recently, months after the Rome debacle, it came in the columns of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda...
...winning its fourth of 11 All-Star games, the West scored a record 47 points in the first quarter, taking a 23-point lead and breaking the mark of 38 points set by the East two years...