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Cornell alumni elected one of Cornell's alltime heroes, Jerome ("Brud") Holland, 49, a Negro. An All-America end in 1937-38 who was named to football's Hall of Fame this year, Holland holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and is president of Virginia's Hampton Institute...
...View of Vesuvius. Then, suddenly, came fame. Chekhov liked his early stories; Tolstoy was delighted by his crude force ("You . . . are a real peasant!"). Moscow's intelligentsia embraced the tall, stooped figure in high boots and belted black tunic. Gorky's wildly onomatopoeic Song of the Stormy Petrel became the battle anthem of the revolution, and soon he was hip deep in politics: setting up capitalist pigeons for Lenin to pluck, polemicizing both for and against the Bolsheviks. During the Leninist purges following the October Revolution, Gorky used his special relationship with Lenin to save many writers...
...Williams, Tennessee-born George Hamilton gives mere lip service to his role. Alternately sulky or smiling, he drawls convincingly but never seems deeply touched by the megrims of the "hillbilly Shakespeare" whose reaction to fame is to mistreat his wife (Susan Oliver) and bedevil his loyal manager (Red Buttons). Meanwhile, life flits by with all the tired gimcrackery of a vintage M-G-M musical-stock shots of triumphant headlines, cheering crowds and bestselling sheet music. The only difference is that Hamilton, star of a group called the Drifting Cowboys, is signed up by Grand Ole Opry instead...
Completing eleventh grade at 15 with just five 1924 classmates-every one of whom, surprisingly, went on to college -Lyndon disappointed his parents by not turning immediately to college. Instead, as he told a recent graduating class at Johnson City High, he "headed West to seek the fame and fortune that I knew America offered." Less grandly, that meant that he and a few buddies piled into a rattletrap car early one morning and stole away to California. Twenty months later, totally broke, he hitchhiked home, worked on a road gang under a searing sun for a dollar...
Died. Lucian ("Sonny") Banks, 24, journeyman heavyweight boxer from Detroit, whose main claim to fame was his 1962 knockdown of Cassius Clay (Clay kayoed Banks four rounds later); of a blood clot in the brain, three days after he was knocked out in the ninth round by Leotis Martin; in Philadelphia. Banks was the 64th fighter to die of ring injuries in the last five years...