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...McLane himself sees it, it was more of a catch-up than a comeback. Seven years ago, at 15, he was a national outdoor titleholder at distances ranging from 400 to 1,500 meters. At 17, as a crewcut, prep schoolboy (Andover), he became the Olympic 1,500-meter champion. But from then on, Jimmy McLane spent a good part of his swimming time gulping the backwash of such stars as Japan's Hironoshin ("The Flying Fish") Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Hawaii's Ford Konno. It was not because he slowed down; the others just...
...stage in 1945 to play the lead in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, quit the cast during the out-of-town tryout, leaving the role (and stardom) to Judy Holliday. For Peter Pan, her first Broadway hit, she studied fencing and ballet, sheared her hair to a near crewcut, left her husky, quavery voice exactly as movie fans have always known...
Last week, with a few new grey flecks in his crewcut hair, Baby was in Rio for a relaxing round of cabaret crawls and pre-carnival binges. Lounging in his suite at the Copacabana Palace, he boasted that business was better than ever now that the experts were gone. Actually, by slicing off a couple of his unprofitable enterprises, the U.S. advisers had done him a real service. His assets, he figured, were now higher than they had ever been. Said Baby: "1949 was a good year for me. Gross sales won't be far from $25 million when...
...some energetic net-rushing to subdue Sedgman, 6-3, 0-6, 6-4, 6-8, 6-4. Meanwhile, the other players that Schroeder wanted to meet were progressing nicely. In the opposite bracket, Parker and Gonzales fought through to the semifinals. Schroeder's semifinals foe was sophisticated, crewcut Billy Talbert. Billy, a diabetic sentenced to daily insulin doses, got off to a quick lead, but Schroeder finished him in an uphill match...
...acquaint Britons with their recent American allies. Since 1922 such sober, unsensational U.S. historians as Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison, Princeton's Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker and Columbia's Allan Nevins have occupied the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship of American History. Last week a 29-year-old, crewcut veteran of World War II sailed for England to become the new Harmsworth professor, as well as the first U.S. Rhodes Scholar ever named to an Oxford chair...