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...sport boasted such immortals as Babe Ruth. Jack Dempsey, Earl Sande. Bobby Jones. Red Grange, Walter Hagen and Man o' War, the gentlemanly game of tennis came out of the private clubs into the national limelight. The man responsible for this revolution was a lanky, hunch-shouldered, hawk-faced competitor named William Tatem Tilden II. He was the greatest tennis player the world has ever seen, the one man in any U.S. sport who was without a peer. He did not always look as good as he really was. Determined never to be bored, Big Bill often deliberately made...
Captain Manuel Fernandez Jr. of Miami, who was the leading jet ace for a while (TIME, May 18), was overhauled by a hawk-eyed pilot who was once Fernandez' gunnery student: Captain Joseph McConnell Jr., 27, of Apple Valley, Calif. For a brief while last fortnight, Fernandez and McConnell were tied at 13 kills apiece. Fernandez got one more; then, in one busy day last week, McConnell raised his total to 16, thus becoming the first "triple jet ace" in aviation history...
...Hawk-nosed Gaetano Marzotto, Count of Valdagno and Castelvecchio, scion of a long line of Italian textile men, hopped into his Lancia one day in 1949 and headed south through the boot of Italy for a vacation. When night fell, the count stopped at one bug-ridden hotel after another, looking for a place to sleep, but found them all booked solid. Marzotto finally slept in his car, woke up rumpled and resolved. He dashed back to Rome, called on President Einaudi and Premier de Gasperi, and asked: "Do you realize how much good tourist money Italy is losing...
Baseball's center-fielding DiMaggio dynasty ended when Dominic ("The Little Professor") DiMaggio, 35, fleet, spectacled Boston Red Sox fly hawk (lifetime batting average: .298) announced his voluntary retirement, 13 years after his major-league debut, to join in pasture big brothers Joe (now a television performer) and Vince (now a liquor salesman...
Bouncing Grandpa. Who is Zorba? He is Everyman with a Greek accent. He is Sinbad crossed with Sancho Panza. He is the Shavian Life Force poured into a long, lean, fierce-mustached Greek whose 65 years in the Mediterranean sun have neither dimmed his hawk eyes nor dulled his pagan laughter. From the moment when he pounces on the nameless narrator of the story with an abrupt offer-"Taking me with you? ... I can make soups you've never heard or thought of"-Zorba makes the heroes of most modern fiction seem like dyspeptic ghosts...