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...Rosewall's drinking is confined to an occasional glass of beer. Stan Smith's most colorful expression is "Aw, shoot." Rod Laver does not even smoke. The tennis world has, in fact, sorely lacked an outstanding male player with personality to match since the heyday of dashing, temperamental Pancho Gonzales. Now there is a promising candidate for Pancho's old role. He is Breezy-Mannered Bachelor Bob Lutz, who last week became the first American in ten years to win the U.S. Professional Tennis Championship...
...1940s; of cancer; in Toledo. A five-foot-two brunette, LaRose began working as a cashier in New York City's Minsky's Theater at the age of 14 to buy herself clothes for school. She quickly graduated to the stage, then to stardom, and in her heyday paid as much as $2,500 per costume. After her retirement from the runway in 1958, she managed her own burlesque house in Toledo before hard times forced its conversion into an adult movie theater...
...spite of myself. I felt great sympathy for the "Con Man of the Year" [Feb. 21] when I read your report that he faces a jail sentence for fraud and perjury. Not since the heyday of P.T. Barnum has one man entertained the American public so long and so well...
CAMBRIDGE HAS experienced an erratic history as a magnet for folk and blues musicians. During the heyday of the Sixties' folk revival, Cambridge, New York and San Francisco formed a triangular circuit for itinerant folkies like Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and Joan Baez. The old Club 47 on Palmer Street played host to nearly all of the best folk singers, as well as to many bluesmen who are rarely seen today. In 1967 the Club 47 folded, leaving the local music scene in a state of restless fragmentation from which it has only recently shown signs of pulling together...
Ironic Gossip. Snow correctly saw the Communists as much more than a bunch of bandits. But his enthusiastic characterization of the leaders as Reel Robin Hoods seemed somewhat overdrawn. Later, during Joseph McCarthy's heyday, Snow was castigated as a Red propagandist. Ironically, he was also the target of gossip linking him to the Central Intelligence Agency. Whatever the charges, Snow never forgot that he was an American. He made no move to renounce citizenship, as did some admirers of Mao, and his 20-year-old daughter Sian (the name means "Western Peace" in Mandarin) is a student...