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...national American Athletic Union convention did away with a couple of bits of unnecessary nonsense. They banned the "Spanish style" javelin throw (in which the spear tosser twirls like a discus thrower and has little control over direction), and they decided that, by next August, Olympic Hurdler Lee Calhoun will be an amateur once more. Calhoun's professional transgression: he was married on TV's gift-happy Bride and Groom show...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Biographer Margaret Coit (John C. Calhoun) has entered the supply-and-demand cycle of Baruch books at the critical phase where supply becomes glut. The truth is that the wily old (87) speculator has cornered the market with Baruch: My Own Story (TIME, Aug. ig), which has a grip on the No. 1 nonfiction spot of national bestseller lists. The first half of Mr. Baruch (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for December) is a blurred carbon copy of Baruch's own book, concerned mainly with his South Carolina boyhood and his stock market coups. Biographer Coit...
Kirkland, runner-up in the House football league, played Calhoun College to a scoreless tie. The two strong lines battled each other to a standstill at midfield through most of the game...
...Charles Polletti developed into scoring threats from their forward positions. A fine defensive halfback line of Mike Kohler, Tom Gleason and John Harberson was backed up by the Elephants' impermeable Final House Football Standings W L T Yale Opponent Dunster 7 0 0 Trumbull Kirkland 6 1 0 Calhoun Winthrop 3 3 1 Davenport Adams 3 3 1 Silliman Leverett 3 4 0 Timothy Dwight Dudley 2 5 0 Berkeley Eliot 1 5 1 Jonathan Edwards Lowell 1 6 0 Pierson...
...Next Prize ..." After the ceremony (performed by Lee's father, the Rev. Carrie Calhoun of the Evening Star Baptist Church of Gary, Ind.), the couple moved from the chapel set into the "reception room" with its artificial ivy, phony fireplace and tableload of shiny booty. The stagehands had already poured the Moet & Chandon champagne, and NBC had trundled in Jackie Robinson to greet the newlyweds. After some cued-in applause and plugs for Jackie (as an executive of Chock Full o' Nuts and publicity man for Look), there was a telegram from Floyd Patterson, also arranged...