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Should any of the youngsters falter, Milwaukee's fabulous farms are ready with still more hot prospects. Best of the lot: a pair of 22-year-olds at Wichita, Lefthander Vic Rehm (11-5, ERA 2.87) and Righthander Don Nottebart (4-7, ERA 4.50); and two southpaws at the Class AA Atlanta farm, Bob Hartman, 20 (18-9, ERA 2.55), and Ken MacKenzie, 24 (12-7, ERA 3.36). But Manager Haney thinks that he has all the varsity pitching he needs right now. Says he of his four young pitchers: "Each one pitches a helluva game every time...
...performance, over and above his adept vaudeville bits, is faultless--a suave and perfectly controlled one, such as we often get from the best British actors and have usually got from Mason himself in his many movies from Seventh Veil through Julius Caesar to Cry Terror. He doesn't falter vocally for a moment, even when at the same time he has to give himself a complete shave with a straight razor or don a shirt with separate collar and French cuffs...
...tame turnabout when Congress Party politicians begged him to stay on (TIME, May 12). New Delhi columnist B. G. Verghese felt that Nehru had come close to "tearing off the mask of complacency and compromise that has been the bane of the Congress Party and the country," only to falter at the last minute: "He compromised without any gain. He threw away the opportunity that he himself had created...
Crimson coach Norman Shepard plans to call on Gerry Emmet and Dave Kipp for relief-work, if Brigham should falter. He will probably save Herb Scheiner for Friday's game against Princeton, and Byron Johnson for the Columbia contest on Saturday...
John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio (Prestige). Tenor Saxophonist Coltrane swings his raucous solos like a truncheon in such numbers as Trancing In and Bass Blues, but the honors here go to Pianist Garland, whose lean, light-fingered attack and delicate sense of mood never falter...