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...more distant prospect is Ozzie Cowles, father-in-law of Ben McCabe, jayvee football coach. Cowles had a brilliant team at Dartmouth and moved from there to Michigan, where he produced a Big Ten Champion quintet. Now at Minnesota, he had a great season there last year...
This last aspect of the program will include Vicki Brazes, high and low board Olympic diving champion, Joe Verdure, former national breaststroke champion, and Mary Hutton, a "water trickster" from Canada...
...Kidding. Because the world champion Cleveland Indians had fewer weak spots than the rest, they were favorites to be the American League champions again. The Indians had been shrewder, and luckier, in filling another of baseball's great deficiencies: they had fresh pitching talent that could survive nine innings. They had big (6 ft. 3½ in.) Gene Bearden, who won 20 and lost 7 last year, plus assorted ablebodied veterans. In Manager Lou Boudreau they also had the smartest, hardest-hitting shortstop in baseball...
...Champion when it comes to realistic boxing scenes (TIME, April 11), Set-Up packs its own sharp, unexpected punches. The story, based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March, is fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films and concentrates on the rotten underside of the ring and the characters that infest it. Especially pungent is the treatment of Paradise City, a typical overnight stop on the hayseed circuit. Rooting about in this neon-lighted netherworld-in down-at-heel bars, penny arcades, a ramshackle arena and its sweaty...
...Champion. Kirk Douglas in an expert retelling of a Ring Lardner short story; with some of the fastest and most realistic boxing scenes ever screened (TIME April...