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First, there is his tennis game: he got started by two women, Dr. Esther Bartoch (then the number three ranking women's player in Los Angeles) and Eleanor Tennant (who later trained Alice Marble). And under them he perfected the winning softspin game, not to mention the psyche-out gimmick...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: The Sugar Daddy Won't Last All Day | 9/25/1973 | See Source »

Private eyes will peer around every corner of the schedule. There are two black sleuths, CBS'S James-Bonded superstud Shaft (played by Richard Roundtree, who created the role in the film of the same title), and NBC'S Tenafly, a harassed family man who is just another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season: Under Arrest | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Tom Wolfe's dandy magazine piece about the Southern stock-car circuit, The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes! Yet the movie seems to be derived less from factual material than from other old racing melodramas, where owners are crooked and slippery, drivers cool and competent, and races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST AMERICAN HERO is based On: Quick Cuts | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

The Friends of Eddie Coyle. With Robert Mitchum. This is the best movie of the season. It's a story of the low level gangster's underworld of Boston -- of petty crooks beating out colleagues for petty cash, of 'friends' betraying 'friends' for survival in this dog-eat-dog gangster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

Leaning into the microphone, Dean, 34, spoke in a lifeless monotone that would long be remembered by TV audiences. There were just enough unexpected angles and lines in his face, including a slightly crooked grin, to rescue it from mediocrity. Thanks to a pair of glasses, he looked more owlish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEARINGS: Dean's Case Against the President | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

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