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This week Kramer organized a new independent company. Plainly distressed over his experience as a mismatched cog in the Columbia machinery, he says philosophically: "I think the most important thing is whether or not I have the right to existence in Hollywood. The motion picture is not only an industry, but an art form too ... To make the best films I know how, I must go back to doing one film at a time...
Some feel such treatment is excessive, but a review of his performance against Harvard last year, and of his season totals both last year and this, perhaps justify this Big Buildup. At least Smith, an all Eastern choice last year as a junior, is a very important cog in a Princeton football machine that has run down considerably since last season...
Mike Kulukondis, manager and star passer, was the main cog in the Mower attack. Others outstanding on the championship squad were Guy Barrow, Richard-Corbell, Bruce William,s Don Pfarrer, Bob Byrd, Bob Ogden, and Barry Linde...
...soon as they are old enough to toddle; the tennis season is ten months long. Only the once-famed California tennis factory, which produced such stars as Don Budge, Bobby Riggs, Ted Schroeder and Jack Kramer, can match the Aussie output. But the California factory has obviously slipped a cog. The U.S.'s weak answer last week to the Aussie production line: naming Seixas player-captain of the Davis Cup team, with Richardson as nucleus...
...golf's precision machine, two months short of 40, slipped a cog in the blistering (96°) Texas heat in the third round, wound up with a 74. While the crowd was following the big names, a swarthy, burly (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ib.) player named Julius Boros, an ex-boxer who smacks a golf ball with punching-bag precision, slipped around Dallas' Northwood course almost unnoticed. Not until he posted his third-round 68, equaling the best of the tournament, did the crowd wake up to the fact that he led Hogan, by two strokes...