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...thriller, Stalag 17 chugs along a straight formula route. But it goes at a decent clip, and in its way is quite uncompromising; it never taints its hokum with anything the least bit real. The humor, coming from prisoners rigidly confined to a few acres, is itself rigidly confined to a few topics, most of them supremely physical. But the men themselves, with their gripes and their razzing, form a diverting cross section from a rough-cut Polish-American G.I. to a Back Bay blueblood...
Dodgers: Second Baseman Robinson, who is currently smacking the ball at a .415 cleanup clip (and last week drew a sharp rebuke from League President Ford Frick for "popping off" to umpires); Fire-bailer Don Newcombe, ace of the Dodger pitching staff, who won 19 games last year; Catcher Roy Campanella, best in the National League (he caught all 14 innings of 1950's All-Star game); Pitcher Dan Bankhead...
...Rigidly monogamous, a pair of ostriches may spend their full 40-year adult life span together. Easily frightened, the birds, which can run at a 60 m.p.h. clip, sometimes cripple themselves dashing headlong into fences. But in the mating season a male ostrich will attack a man, can disembowel him with a single downward kick of his two-toed foot, whose claw is the size of a railroad spike...
...simple strategy for the race called for "fast foot" from the start. Within the first minute, the longer (by 14 in.) and lighter (by 40 Ibs.) Cambridge shell jetted to the lead at a 42-stroke-a-minute clip. Harvard fell gradually behind. According to Coach Bolles's strategy, his crew was to conserve its strength at first, catch up with Cambridge in an all-out final sprint. But by the time Harvard made its bid, the smooth-stroking Cambridge "fast foot" had run away with the race. The blue-tipped oars of Cambridge flashed across the finish line...
...silhouette Centurion tank. Said Ike, after watching the 50-tonner churning through the mud: "The Centurion looks like a good piece of mechanism. I hope we don't have to use it." Next day, with a French motorcycle escort, Eisenhower drove at a 50-mile-an-hour clip to Coblenz. The French, who do not forget that they are the conquerors, had cleared a 60-mile stretch of road of all traffic; even an ambulance and a funeral waited while Ike passed. In the crowd at Coblenz a German youth jostled a French cavalry colonel. The officer pushed...