Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the school bully putting the new boy in his place, Pancho Gonzales has used his bazooka drives and serves to humiliate every fair-haired lad who quit amateur tennis to take a crack at his professional title, which Pancho has held since 1954. Fairest-haired of all the challengers has been Aussie Lew Hoad, a blond muscleman with the forearm of a weight lifter, who challenged Gonzales in 1958 after conquering the amateur world. As usual, Gonzales treated the newcomer like an upstart kid, routed Hoad 51-36 on their first barnstorming tour of professional matches...
...Britain's Stirling Moss. "It's not a race but a circus." Three hundred thousand spectators flock to Le Mans, spend more than $1,000,000 on other amusements as the sports cars roar over public roads through the 24-hour grind. They roam through 500-odd fair stands, quaff more than 100,000 liters of wine, beer and soft drinks, watch professional wrestling matches just 50 yards from the track, ogle strippers and snake dancers, cram all-night dance halls and, when they run down, catch a few winks in 20,000 sleeping tents booked to capacity...
...When it comes to pressuring for contracts, he charged that the real big leaguers are in Congress itself. "Every time some Congressman wants a contract for a hometown favorite, the Pentagon is supposed to jump." Businessmen noted that Representative Santangelo himself complained that New York was not getting its fair share of contracts; the West Coast was getting all the gravy...
...blame must fall on director Landau. Not for nothing does Mercutio share five letters with Mercury; but there is nothing mercurial about Smithers' performance. Mercutio is an airy, sparkling, zestful, witty chap; Smithers is none of these. Too bad, for the role is so rich that it bids fair to top that of Romeo himself--wherefore Shakespeare had to kill him off on two counts...
Boston Summer Playhouse (76 Warrenton Street, Boston): June 29-July 4, "Fair Game"; July 6-11, "A Hole in the Head"; July 13-18, "Witness for the Prosecution"; July 20-25, "A Roomful of Roses"; July 27-August 1, "A View From the Bridge"; August 3-8, "Wedding Breakfast"; August 10-15, "Therese"; August 17-22, "Middle of the Night"; August 24-29, "The Moon Is Blue...