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Dixon himself was one of the greatest Harvard squash players of all time, winning the national championship when a Senior in College and repeating the following year. In the 1925 championship he competed in both the team and individual tournaments, playing an average of four matches a day. He was one of the masters of position squash, and was of such high calibre that even in 1946, when he was past his prime and badly out of practice, he was able to give coach Jack Barnaby, then one of the leading professional players in the country, a very tough match...
Glennan resisted Democratic suggestions that more spending now would put the United States on a par with Soviet rocket power. He said the U.S. space engine effort already is "going under the greatest head of steam we can muster at the present time...
...greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling," said Cecil B. DeMille in a speech a few months before he died. Few men had changed that art as drastically as he. Story and song, play and pageant have always demanded that the audience's imagination fill out the scene; DeMille and his Hollywood disciples left nothing to the imagination. His life was dedicated to manufactured magnificence; the "epic" was his trademark in a world that would never match its image on his movie screens...
John Betjeman, 52, is a gentle, witty, rumpled Englishman who has been called "the greatest bad poet now living." It would be in character if he agreed with that estimate, although he can be called "bad" only in the sense that his rhymes sometimes jingle like a song writer's and that his subjects are often deliberately homely. Literary bookmakers predict that Betjeman (rhymes with fetch-a-man) will be England's next poet laureate. By last week, his Collected Poems had caused a rush on British bookstores probably unmatched by any newly published work of poetry since...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Another in the series of dissertations on the greatest minds. Subject: Albert Einstein, author of the plot (E = mc2) that was the most dramatic of them...