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...sincere congratulations for your article on Miss Audrey Hepburn [TIME, Sept. 7]. Such a stimulating antidote to all the recent publicity, relating to a sad analysis of the deterioration of values among a fraction of our womanhood...
...Producer William Wyler] who asserts that "that girl is going to be the biggest star in Hollywood" . . . When you come to think that Jean Simmons was only 18 when she gave her brilliant performance in Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, you start wondering whether [24-year-old] Miss Hepburn hasn't started too late . . . Her soulful looks will take her far. She's pretty . . . But I'd like to see her future work way over par before taking...
Roman Holiday. Newcomer Audrey Hepburn goes on a hilarious tour of Rome with Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert, as Director William Wyler adds some new twists to a popular old comedy-romance plot (TIME, Sept...
Brooding over his lack of recognition, Hepburn dropped training last year, passed up tryouts for Canada's Olympic weight-lifting team. But a few Vancouverites had begun to take him seriously. Goaded to enter this year's world weight-lifting championships in Stockholm, Hepburn consented to show his skill at a Canadian Legion meeting, at a baseball park between innings. For his traveling expenses, the take, plus donations, came to $1,377. With a sprained ankle and no coach, he departed for Sweden last month...
...features and his massive 290 lbs. on a 5 ft. 9 in. frame caused a stir on Stockholm's streets. Ignoring the dangerous Swedish girls, he immediately set to practicing the two-hands championship lifts-the press, snatch, and clean and jerk.* Last week his big moment came. Hepburn faced the gargantuan defending world champion, Brooklyn's John Davis, in the heavyweight class (lifter's own weight unlimited). Planting his feet and unlimbering his tremendous biceps, Doug reached his goal. With three lifts totaling 1,030¼ Ibs., he beat Runner-Up Davis, who raised...