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From Good to Great. At first, Villanova Coach Jim ("Jumbo") Elliott was unimpressed with his new recruit. "He was lazy," says Elliott. "But sprinters are like that. They believe that God gave them their speed and all they have to do is lace up their shoes, comb their hair and run." Not until the 1960 Rome Olympics did Budd realize that work would make him a real champion. Unheralded and unnoticed, he placed fifth in the 100-meter dash-despite the fact that he was spiked in the foot by fellow U.S. Sprinter Dave Sime. "When Frank went to Rome...
About the fellow on the cover of your magazine. I mean, is it all right if we take an offering and buy him a new shirt, suit, comb and maybe even throw in a few extra bucks so he can get a haircut and some coffee? I mean, golly, after this, who is going to run for President...
...McWThirters now comb thousands of journals to keep their superlatives up to date, correspond with authorities in no countries, scan heaps of musty books to track down obscure points. To determine that Henry I was the leading sire of illegitimate children among British monarchs (at least 20, by six mistresses), they consulted twelve volumes of peerage records. And when all else fails, they turn to an army of volunteer assistants, including a mathematics expert lodged in Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum...
...Spaniard in him still ruled the spirit of his work. It shows in the nobility of his Don Quixote. And even in his most abstract work, there are the symbols of Spain-a Spanish comb, the fringe of a shawl, a guitar's strings, the horns of a bull. The show-57 sculptures, five enamels, 41 drawings and pastels-will tour the United States and Canada until 1963. Everywhere it travels, it will remind sculptors of their debt to Gonzalez, and of the iron-hard sadness of his life and thought...
...Coty American Fashion Critics' Awards committee broke 18-year precedent to anoint a coiffeur. The man of the hour at the solemn presentation ceremonies in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mr. Kenneth (surname back home in Syracuse, N.Y.: Battelle), who was already famed as clippers and comb expert for Marilyn Monroe, Tina Onassis and Judy Garland, but who achieved the bouffant ("I like to call it uncontrived fullness") summit with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...