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Where is the U.S. going to find its next great tennis star? Watching the play of a pink-faced, cowlicked 16-year-old last week, Davis Cup Selection Committee Chairman James H. Bishop thought he had found the answer. As Hamilton Farrar ("Ham") Richardson of Baton Rouge, La. went about winning the National Junior championship with one of the most stylish all-court games seen this year, Jim Bishop pronounced him "the best [tennis] prospect in a quarter of a century...
Among Li'l Abner fans, it is common knowledge that Capp and Cartoonist Ham Fisher, who draws Joe Palooka, have long feuded. One of the big Capp-Fisher arguments concerns the birth of Li'l Abner: Fisher charges that Capp stole the idea from a Palooka sequence involving a hillbilly named Li'l David; Capp says he invented the hillbillies while working as Fisher's assistant on the Palooka strip...
...that Ezio Pinza "has shown there is a place on Broadway for serious voices," Patrice is even thinking seriously of going there herself. Says she: "I'm an incurable ham, and nothing gives me a bigger kick than getting a laugh or bringing the house down with a song...
...Roman Ham. But it is Bushman's personality which has endeared him to Chicago. The public loves Bushman because Bushman loves them-he is one of the most unabashed hams that ever trod the boards. Despite his looks, he is a kindly and jovial sort of gorilla, who often plays gently with the mice he catches in his cage. The spectacle of Bushman lying at ease like a Roman, munching grapes and gulping quart bottles of milk handed in by his keeper (when in a good mood he politely hands them back), has won the hearts of the multitude...
...occasional unusual job turned up. Edith Sloan, a February graduate, is at present an assistant principal at the Episcopal School in Liberia. Claire Ham '50 will be working on cancer research at M.I.T...