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...Head. From dawn till dusk, Red China's 38-player squad hammered away at the ball, pausing for tea and calisthenics every half-hour or so. "These Chinese," marveled Japan's former World Champion Ichiro Ogimura, "play basketball and volleyball and do special exercises. They practice gymnastics to develop agility, lift weights to build up certain muscles." They also keyed themselves to fever pitch emotionally. China's Hsu Yin-sheng explained that his forehand was so powerful because he looked on a Ping-Pong ball "as though it were the head of Chiang Kai-shek...
When the first rays of dawn on a Somerset Maugham...
Died. Linda Darnell, 41, sultry brunette star, and one of Hollywood's great natural beauties, who appeared in some 50 movies (Blood and Sand, Forever Amber, A Letter to Three Wives) from 1939 on; of burns suffered during a pre-dawn fire that started in the living room of a friend and former secretary whom she was visiting; in Chicago...
...from being a barbarous monster, Holofernes (Paul Sparer) is Shaw's Caesar, an aphoristic philosopher-king who erotically brainwashes the girl. She swoon-dives into his bed, only to knife him to death at dawn (Giraudoux's style forbids a gory beheading). Judith's romantic rationale for the killing is that love was bound to be blunted by repetition or betrayed by neglect...
...unwelcome guest in lands where he once was master. Composition Piece examines through a black man's eyes "the new, post-war group of colonial administrators, liberal in opinions, immensely tolerant, who want to lend one books and dedicate their lives to one's assistance." Dawn at Reyn's Cop describes how history catches up with a young Boer who kills a Kaffir servant and discovers to his horror that the law is seriously prepared to demand a white life for a black one. The Picnic depicts an Englishwoman stupefied to find herself in love with...