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...Ponder Heart (adapted from Eudora Welty's story by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov) puts all its slightly addled eggs in one basket-the basket of charm. Since they are really all Easter eggs to begin with, the thing works out very well. The whole Southern small-town tale of a lovable, eccentric ne'er-do-ill put on trial for murder has a light pastel daffiness about it, a way of making life look delightfully woozy through wrong-prescription rose-colored glasses...
...sold Stalin the idea that South Korea was another ripe plum waiting to fall into the Soviet basket was three-star General Terenty F. Shtykov, boss of the Soviet armed forces in North Korea and later Soviet ambassador to Pyongyang. When the Communist invasion unexpectedly ran into allied armed opposition, Stalin pulled the rank and ribbons off Shtykov and sent him into that twilight of disfavor which has so often preceded the long night for Communist bigwigs. But last week Shtykov surprised the world by springing back into the news: at Vladivostok (only 400 miles from his old stamping ground...
...their finish line. High jumpers rolled over the bar. Seconds after they started, handicap relays were too confused for the casual fan; runners were spread out over the track. And through it all, pole vaulters kept on jumping, and a proud, tux-togged official rode high in the basket of a finger lift to replace the bar when someone missed...
...Crimson made only 19 of 74 field goal attempts, and took a good many of these when no one was covering the backboard. Princeton scored on an adequate 36 percent--22 for 62--of its floor tries, and had a knack of coming through with an important basket when the losers showed signs of life...
...varsity, while missing over 75 per cent of its shots, half the time could not even hit the basket rim, and several times completely missed the backboard...