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Many thanks for the June 22 article on "The New Girls in Hollywood." A delightful bit of writing! Shirley MacLaine is the best thing Hollywood has displayed in many a moon...
...reporting droughts and pestilence and-in Kwangtung province-the "worst flood of the century" (TIME, July 6). And at the very moment that Shanghai was boasting that each of its inhabitants would be getting nearly four times as much food this year, travelers reported that even in the best hotels meat and eggs were hard to come by, and that in other cities the ration of meat, sugar and fish had been cut. As for Red China's great "leap forward" in steel, to a large extent accomplished by backyard amateur furnaces for smelting pig iron, Peking...
Splinters on the Bench. By most standards, the Yankees should beas far ahead as ever. Their fielding (.981) leads the league; their hitting (.261) is the best of the five top contenders. The one thing they lack is that patented Yankee authority in the clutch. Key balls dribble through the infield; key flies drop untouched. Yankee regulars have played like Little Leaguers before. But always Yankee pitching and that overwhelming Yankee bench made up for it. This year Stengel's pitchers have completed only 22 of 77 games...
Chief in Command. Olmedo's victory was no surprise. When the going is easy, the lithe, 23-year-old Peruvian with the classic Inca features can blow a match with the best of them. But his charging, slashing game stiffens under pressure, and at Wimbledon the going was tough enough to challenge his mastery. Ranged against him were Australia's nimble Rod Laver, 20, and dark-haired Roy Emerson, 22, and America's moody, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Barry MacKay. 23, Olmedo's Davis Cup teammate against Australia last winter. MacKay did not get beyond...
...production of Merry Wives can succeed without a good Falstaff. In this fat part Larry Gates gives by far the best-rounded performance in his several years with the Festival. Wearing 75 pounds of costume, he is indeed a "gross watery pumpion"; and when he sits or falls, the earth trembles...