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...swimming, Australia's barrel-chested John Konrads, 18, will be the man to beat in the 400 and 1,500 meters. The greatest swimmer in history, Konrads drives himself six miles a day in training, gulps as many as 18 vitamin pills before a race, treats distance events as sprints and holds seven world records. But Konrads may have to swim faster than ever before to beat Teammate Murray Rose, 21, winner of both the 400 and 1,500 meters at Melbourne's 1956 Olympics, and Japan's stocky Tsuyoshi Yamanalca, 21, who has smoothed...
...Navy did not hesitate, nor did it follow the example of other services and call in civilian industry to run its program. Chief of Naval Operations Burke issued orders to Rear Admiral William Francis Raborn Jr., 55, a bluff, barrel-chested navigator who had never seen the sea before he got to Annapolis with the class of 1928. Burke gave Raborn orders to proceed with "all possible haste" to develop a fleet ballistic missile. He was authorized to set up a task force called, simply, Special Projects, which would cut across all the Navy's cherished bureaus. His work...
...Tufts Arena Theater traditionally scrapes the bottom of the barrel to find its plays. The splinter it removed from under its fingernail this week is "Mostellaria" (or "The Haunted House") by Plautus. This farce dates from around 200 B.C. and, except for the fact that it predates almost all of them, is totally indistinguishable from the five thousand other farces based on the carousings of a wayward son during his father's absence. It has in it the familiar wily servant and the hordes of cooperative women and it ends in the inevitable crisis precipitated by the father's unexpected...
...Seven of Munich, the Diissel-dorf Feetwarmers. Berlin's Spree City Stompers. They belted out meticulous imitations of the legendary New Orleans bands of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds. To listeners remembering old Okeh and Paramount recordings, the effect was sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care that they even mastered the ascending intonation of the famous cry. "Oh, play that thing." near the record's end. And a jazz singer named Inge Brandenburg, 31, belted out her numbers with a phrasing...
...matter of fact, persons attempting to find Huck Finn in this picture will be, to say the least, disappointed. As written, Huck was a young river rat who lived in a wharf barrel and smelt like his surroundings. As played by Actor Hodges, a stage child who got his start on Broadway in The Music Man, the prototype of frontier boyhood is a freckled-faced mother's darling who reeks of soap and suburban charm, and who looks exactly the way Producer Goldwyn wanted him to look: like "a Missouri Peter Pan." But Finn fans will forget this minor...