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Wrist & Spin. Until this year, few experts rated Laver as a serious threat to Budge's lonely eminence. One of the "tennis babies" that Australia seems to breed as profusely as kangaroos, he was one of four children, all tennis players, brought up by a father who was an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Rocket's Slam | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

Indeed we are, and sometimes trying just a bit too hard, but Britain's Peter Sellers is remarkably cunning about his funning: even when he's trying to get a laugh, he never really seems to be trying, so when he fails he never really seems to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sellersmanship | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

All kinds of good things must be said for the present production. It is a delight, especially in the pocket-sized theatre of the Hotel Bostonian, decked out in appropriate Gallic style. With Offenbach in the background and designer Robert Wells' curtain a la Toulouse-Lautrec, it out-Montmartres Montmartre...

Author: By Norman R. Shapiro, | Title: Boubouroche | 8/6/1962 | See Source »

As Longfellow told the story, Hiawatha one day trustingly left the lodge unguarded only to find that Pau-Puk-Keewis, "whom the people called the Storm-Fool," had entered his home, killed his pet raven, then ransacked the place. After an arduous hunt, Hiawatha slew his treacherous enemy. Only then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Gitche Gumee Revisited | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

(2 of 11) business competitors, practiced fraud and deceit on a massive scale, and even victimized Church of Christ schools that he was supposed to be helping as a fund raiser or financial adviser. He pursued money relentlessly but, despite energy, ingenuity, cunning and a dazzling gift of salesmanship, ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Decline & Fall | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

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