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...page readers learned to their surprise two days ago that Ireland's Ron Delany, the world's greatest indoor miler, was risking immediate suspension by withdrawing from tomorrow night's Cleveland K. of C. Track Meet. Delany's action, according to John McCarthy, persident of the meet, constituted "a flagrant breach of faith--the type which the A.A.U. cannot countenance without taking strong action...
Some Came Running (M-G-M), James (From Here to Eternity) Jones's best-selling second novel (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958), was a 1,266-page description of almost continuous sexual activity, climaxed with frequent and flagrant violations of the English language. But the book at least had the distinction of being the biggest (2 lbs. 11 oz.) literary clinker of the year. The film, perhaps because it has necessarily been sterilized by the censor, is not nearly so successful. In the last twelve months there have been at least two major movies (The Vikings and A Farewell...
Harvard's attitude has traditionally been that "coaches ought to coach," not spend the off-season tracking down promising high school stars. Sometimes the line gets rather slim--when Alumni Schools and Scholarship Committees hold special functions for candidates and coaches, for instance. The most flagrant violations--appointments with a boy's parents, special recruiting at a high school--these have been outlawed at Harvard...
...Peggy Guggenheim, most dashing of the second-generation collectors, has "found nothing astonishing in a life larded with blood-splattering parties, gatherings with public confessions and public disrobings, flagrant infidelities and hysterical rows," says Author Saarinen. A bouncy bit of heiress in a housecoat of peach-colored feathers, she always collected artists along with their art. Surrealism was her first great passion, and it took her into a marriage to Max Ernst. Abstract expressionism was her second, and included a penchant for Jackson Pollock as a man. Now, full of years and honor, she lives in a Venetian palace, paints...
...Sopranos. Tebaldi's rising star inevitably collided with the fiery trail of Maria Meneghini Callas. When they both embarked on South American tours in 1951, an ill-advised concert manager placed them on the same program in Rio, and Tebaldi slipped in several encores-in flagrant violation, Callas claimed, of a no-encore agreement. At a supper party, Callas charged Tebaldi with this and other sins, lectured her for her recent flop in Traviata. "We parted," says Tebaldi, "with a certain coldness...