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...fought three rounds with Archie Moore, who gave him a bloody nose. In 1960, he pitched an endless inning to a line-up of major-league All-Stars, who toyed with him by fouling off as many as 20 pitches before delivering the coup de grâce. In his latest adventure, Plimpton was last-string quarterback for the Detroit Lions during training season. This account of his adventure goes beyond an amateur's blushing recital to become a participant's picture of the sixties' hottest spectator sport...
...Father Grégoire Lemercier, prior of St. Mary of the Resurrection monastery near Cuernavaca, Mexico, believes that psychoanalysis is good for the soul-especially the soul of the monk. Convinced that too many men enter the cloister out of fear of the world or from a sense of sexual inadequacy, Benedictine Lemercier five years ago encouraged the monks and postulants at St. Mary's to undertake group-therapy sessions. As a result, 40 of them decided that they did not have a true vocation and left, but Lemercier is sure that St. Mary's is the better...
...fear my Father. He is my rival. I want to be like him, but I fear that he does not want me to be like him." Lemercier confesses the jealousy of a younger brother toward Christ: "Father, behold your two sons, the first born Jesus, and the other Grégoire. Why is there this difference between them?" Psychoanalysis even found its way into the prayers Lemercier composed, one of which contains the petition: "Father, forgive me my sins, as I forgive you your sins...
...wing, the lovebirds catch delightful glimpses of such old film favorites as Wilfred Hyde-White, Grégoire Asian, John Le Mesurier, and Terry-Thomas cast as an Eton-educated sheik whose gap-toothed grin would probably pass a camel. T-T has a number of soppingly silly old-boy lines to deliver, but the silliest is allotted to Villain Lorn. "I'm having a party tomorrow night," tie remarks amiably to a wealthy Muslim. "Do come. And bring your wives...
Somehow the fizz was out of the champagne during Paris' fashion showings last week. Chanel showed suits, Grès had a tent-shaped evening gown, St. Laurent showed exaggerated sailor suits and transparent organza dresses. But after Rome, it all seemed flat until Barbra Streisand, Broadway's freewheeling funny girl, showed up on her first trip abroad to add some zing and zest to the proceedings...