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...science in the 2nd century A.D. Claims of other ancestors are unsurprising: Swift, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne. Until about 1940, BEMs kept a many-tentacled grip on the medium, but then came the big turning point. Readers became too sophisticated to accept the simple substitution of the blaster for the six-gun, and stories that were merely prophetic palled as scientists caught up with the pulp writers...
...Mutiny Court-Martial, with most of the same cast that has carried the show to big-money grosses on Broadway and on tour across the nation. Lloyd Nolan re-created his memorable Captain Queeg, depicting the collapse of a personality, in one shattering crossexamination, from a man-to-man blaster to a whining paranoiac. Captain Queeg's character is complex yet dramatically clear, but most of the other characters in Caine Mutiny must operate as intellectual phobias or fantasies of the author. Barry Sullivan was savagely efficient as the attorney for the defense, but far less convincing...
Dazzler & Blaster. Rosewall, dark, smallish (5 ft. 7 in., 147 Ibs.), and affectionately nicknamed "Muscles" by his strapping teammates, was first matched against Seixas' blazing serve-one of the best in the game. Rosewall not only stood firm, but made such dazzling returns of service that Seixas was caught flatfooted in midcourt. Seixas dropped two of the first three sets, found himself at match point in the fourth (all matches are the best three of five). Rosewall, with victory in sight, failed and lost the fourth set. But unruffled, he won the fifth set and match...
...Dream-Blind. The sympathy of his fellow countrymen has not softened Blaster Lewis much. His newest book, Rotting Hill, is a volume of nine short stories-in which most of the stories are not stories at all. They are the polemics of an enraged preacher who is neither Labor nor Tory, Christian nor pagan, democrat nor aristocrat. Their aim is to tell
...coming Trabert, National Clay Court and Intercollegiate champion (TIME, July 23 et seq.), learned his lesson in less time-three straight sets. Tony, a blaster of driving shots from baseline and net, never could set himself against Talbert's well-placed drives and drop shots, and was constantly on the defensive-a phase of the game he does not understand. The score...