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...save themselves from an embarrassing shutout. Seixas outlasted Anderson, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 0-6, 13-11, and MacKay, no longer bothered by cup competition jitters, beat back Cooper, 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Said happy Harry Hopman: "You may consider my grip on the Davis Cup slippery." Somehow he managed to say it with a straight face...
Black Sheath. Now in its second year as a local show, plain-speaking Confession not only keeps its viewers goggling at its "crusade against crime" but manages so responsible a grip on its sensational material that it has won the help and plaudits of Dallas churchmen and law-enforcement officials. Questioner Wyatt, 40, who originated and produces the show, is a onetime disk jockey, radio writer and veteran of Madison Avenue ad agencies who fled to Texas 3½ years ago, and spends most of his time running a Dallas ad business. Says he: "This may sound corny...
...Prizewinning Biographer Margaret Coit (John C. Calhoun) has entered the supply-and-demand cycle of Baruch books at the critical phase where supply becomes glut. The truth is that the wily old (87) speculator has cornered the market with Baruch: My Own Story (TIME, Aug. ig), which has a grip on the No. 1 nonfiction spot of national bestseller lists. The first half of Mr. Baruch (Book-of-the-Month Club choice for December) is a blurred carbon copy of Baruch's own book, concerned mainly with his South Carolina boyhood and his stock market coups. Biographer Coit labored...
...conducted almost entirely with his left, pulling the orchestra as if the musicians were marionettes on a hundred invisible strings. With his left hand shaking, soothing, plucking, dancing, he shaped phrases, tossed cues, whipped his men to new intensities. What he did above all was to keep an inexorable grip on the tempo and rhythm, and, never aiming at stunts, he tried to speak with Beethoven's voice. He succeeded perhaps better than any other living conductor...
...Victorian touch--"highest morals"--still holds onto the magazine, but there are evidences that its grip is less strong than it once...