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...Jack Nicklaus might have been alone on a practice green for all the emotion he displayed. Intently, impassively, he hunched over his 2-ft. putt. Daintily, deliberately, he stroked the ball toward the hole. When it plunked safely into the cup, he permitted himself a change of expression-a boyish grin and tip of his cap to the crowd. With that putt, at 22 and in his first year as a professional golfer, burly Jack Nicklaus had won the biggest golf tournament of them all: the U.S. Open...
...Boyish Bob Cummings, most hapless of the lot, disappeared after a week of tiresome apologies for himself. These tentative flings sputter along, propelled by weak jokes and-when needed-repeats of a Linkletter show-and the best of Art is none too good...
...moviegoers "FEEL FEAR!" and once in a while it does; but most of the time it makes him feel condescending. Its tricks of terror are too obviously tricks, and the unreality is reassuring-even soporific. What's more, at 46, Peck really ought to stop doing the boyish bit. But Mitchum as usual makes a nice shiny reptile, and it's gory good fun to watch Peck cut him up into handbags...
...written mostly dote on the city's familiar figures, black and white alike, and on private themes of wonder and frailty. "Emotion has to be the heart of the song,"Brown says. "You make the people feel; they make themselves think." Expression of Hope. Ardent and boyish at 35, Brown grew up on Chicago's South Side. He attended three colleges without success, finally took a halfhearted fling at his father's real estate business. He wrote Brown Baby, his best-known song, eleven years ago as an expression of hope for the world inherited...
...Zakopane, Poland, East Germany's boyish Helmut Recknagel, 24, soared 338 ft.-3 ft. more than the nearest competitor-to cinch his second straight world ski-jumping championship...