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1953−56. During the four years that they took over from Sedgman and McGregor, Australia's brilliant Whiz Kids. Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, lost only once-to the U.S. in 1954. In 1957 both players turned pro. A power hitter with flat-trajectory ground strokes, Hoad is...
What to do? In desperation, Mrs. Stone consults an aristocratic procuress, a ludicrous old mascaraed barracuda who calls herself La Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales (Lotte Lenya). The lady provides Mrs. Stone with a handsome young escort called Paolo (Warren Beatty), who has big shoulders and a small title. No fool...
In a precise imitation of Parks's performance, O Cruzeiro sent one of its own cameramen, Henri Ballot, to New York. There on Manhattan's Lower East Side, "five minutes by car from Wall Street," Ballot found exactly what he was sent to find: a New York family...
...Cruzeiro's account of slum life "in the shadow of the Chase Manhattan and First National City Bank'' was every bit as graphic as the LIFE study of Rio. Ballot's picture of eight Gonzaleses crowded into a single slum-house bedroom had much the same impact as Parks's shot of the Rio favelados crowded into theirs. Fact was that Ballot's most moving picture-Gonzales' frail nine-year-old son Ely-Samuel asleep on a dirty mattress and apparently crawling with cockroaches-was posed. The photographer caught and distributed the roaches...
Played big in O Cruzeiro ("Story of the Misery in the Favelas of New York"), Ballot's photographic essay ran for 14 pages, with an accompanying text that sustained a note of righteous indignation. "In his article for LIFE," wrote O Cruzeiro's editors, "Gordon Parks chose one...