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Wimbledon's head groundsman, a connoisseur of footwork, says he can always tell who will be in the semifinals by the way the players handle their feet. He paid Jake his highest compliment: "Never made a mark on the court." Jake, in turn, summed up his appreciation of Wimbledon: "It's really high class...
...Without Memories. Until Gromyko's entrance, a successful diplomat was a subtle, imaginative artist, who could improvise a stiff note to a fractious government as quickly as a compliment for a fat lady. But Gromyko behaves in chancelleries and council chambers with all the charm of a misanthropic robot. He is blunt, aloof, without imagination, without the right (or apparently the will) to independent thought. He refers every decision to Moscow. His diplomacy consists in executing Moscow's will to the letter, to the accompaniment of paraphrased Pravda editorials. He is assisted by Physics Professor Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsin (Atomic Energy...
What Was the Name? Leonard Lyons spent a nostalgic week among his souvenirs. Samples: Elisabeth Bergner had once read Lennie's horoscope; Iturbi had paid Lennie a backhanded compliment; Randy Churchill had paid him a small bet. People were always confusing Lennie Lyons with Eugene (Assignment in Utopia) Lyons, but that was no worry any longer because only one of them was still a celebrity. And once a mutual friend was telling a Zurich innkeeper about Lennie. The innkeeper had never heard of "one of America's most important journalists?" Point of the anecdote: the fellow was obviously...
...best collegiate athlete since Jim Thorpe . . . and possibly the greatest of them all" is a tremendous compliment to pay to Glenn Davis [TIME, June 16], but did your Sport Editor ever bother to check the record of one Jack Robinson...
...famed Mexican ex-matador (Fortunio Bonanova), has talent in the bull ring, but his heart is in his music. When all Mexico accuses him of cowardice, his twin sister Maria (Esther Williams) doubles for him and, in a slather of veronicas, saves his reputation. He returns the compliment by saving her life. After that he proceeds to the conservatory with father's blessing. Sister is happy with her young man (John Carroll), and everything ends in a fiesta. Blonde, blooming Esther Williams is about as Mexican as Harry Truman, but a lot more fun to look...