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Baseball's highest-priced performer (1960 take: $85,000 from the San Francisco Giants, some $23,000 from shaving in public), Willie Mays, 30, was crying all the way to the bank. Already into the Giants for $65,200 in salary advances and $8,641 in hock to the revenooers, the "Say Hey" center fielder faced further depredations from his estranged wife Marghuerite (who indignantly denies Mays's charge that she "goes for $400 shoes and $8,000 mink coats"). Moaned Willie's attorney, who was fighting to un-sweeten Marghuerite's separation...
...runs a third-rate hock shop can be excused for taking a crabbed view of humanity. To his barred window, clutching their appalling array of tattered goods, come junkies, alkies, homosexuals, whores and pimps, as well as the faceless poor. Reflecting on his part in these endless, trivial transactions. Sol Nazerman, the Harlem pawnbroker, "became filled with the idea that he was building a tower of junk, struggling and draining himself to amass nothing . . . For him the core of life was there in all its reality: brutal, wretched, and grasping...
...COLORADO--"It is a hopeless situation. I guess should be done about it." St. Lawrence hock- George Menard after his humiliating 12-2 defeat by in the final game of the tournament here last month. , whose team lost to Michi-, 13 to 3, in the same last year, was referring annual East-West collegiate showdown--a one-sided the statistics show...
...afford to take chances. But that explanation is only partly true. Off-Broadway, where production is still comparatively cheap, is proving itself only slightly more original. Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak. The real trouble seems to be the failing imagination of U.S. playwrights...
...Some of the surefire laughs in The Best Man, an election-year play about good buys and bad guys in presidential politics, went over bigger than usual one night last week at Manhattan's Morosco Thea ter. Like the moment in the first act when Trumanesque "ex-President Hock-stader" assured a prospective presidential nominee: "And for another thing, you're a millionaire. People trust you rich boys. They figure you've got so much money of your own you won't go stealin' theirs." Or when fat "Senator Carlin" cracked...