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Yale's captain George Bush is weakly regarded at the plate, but his glove work around first base has been extraordinary. One New Haven publication recently called him one of the finest fielding first sackers in the country, "including the major leagues...
...mustn't think of these people," said General Ike Eisenhower last week, "as just some sort of unfortunates . . . They are not-they are one of you. I saw a major general, one of the finest athletes of his time, definitely break-break because he could no longer sustain the agonies of combat. He could not talk to me without shaking, and he had to go home. This cannot be dismissed as not touching you personally...
These sudsy romantics are elegantly produced by John Houseman and directed by Austrian Max Opuls who, back in the early '30s, made one of the finest pictures of this genre-Schnitzler's Liebelei. Opuls knows all there is to know about romantic values: flirtations in the Prater, late on a winter night; a military band concert in a provincial city; the way a veteran roue misunderstands a refined and ardent woman. Some of his scenes have such strong visual charm that the dialogue recedes to a sort of musical accompaniment. But by & large the movie talks rather than...
...Losses. Detective Wittenberg, a member of "New York's Finest" since 1941, is the finest U.S. amateur wrestler in & out of uniform. Last month he became the first man ever to win seven National A.A.U. senior wrestling titles. He is also the best U.S. bet to win the heavyweight Olympic wrestling event this summer in London (toughest competitors: the Turks and Swedes...
...York Times 93,000. Extracts are running in 80 newspapers outside the U.S. (Houghton Mifflin and Book-of-the-Month Club will publish the complete text this summer). This week, Churchill turned over to LIFE and the Times Vol. II of his memoirs, covering Britain's darkest-and finest-hours, the period that saw the fall of France and the 1940 blitz on London. This second installment of his five-volume memoirs is scheduled to appear next January...