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Before the crowd at center court had time to catch its breath, broad-backed (5 ft. 10 in., 170 Ibs.), blond Lewis ("The Truck Driver") Hoad, who balefully blasts the ball, in contrast to Rosewall's defter touch, was meeting 1950 Title-holder Larsen. The U.S.'s No. 3, a retriever, was whipped...
Architect László designs his houses down to the last ashtray or built-in Kleenex holder. He protests that money is not everything: "One million dollars will not build the perfect house. You somehow can't put everything you want into it. It's largely a matter of taste, judgment and talent." But money helps...
...Walpole open to ridicule. All prepared to lecture on Charles Dickens, he would mount the platform only to find the subject was expected to be "Life Begins at Fifty." In Westminster Abbey, at George VI's coronation, it was Walpole's invitation card which slipped from its holder's tremulous fingers and floated down upon members of Parliament...
Died. Norman Stephen Taber, 60, financial consultant, managing director of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, former (1948-49) budget director of ECA, and for eight years (1915-23) holder of the world's record for the mile run (4 min. 12.6 sec.);* of cancer; in Orange...
...Wayne Moore soon after he began swimming for Yale three years ago. On anybody else's team, Moore would have been a fast-stroking standout. But at Yale his talent was submerged at first in the backwash of two spectacular teammates: Australia's John Marshall, holder of the world 440-yd. free-style record, and Jimmy McLane, who, as an Andover schoolboy of 17, became the 1948 Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle champion. Last week, after a lengthening string of victories over Marshall and McLane, Yale's newly elected Team Captain Moore, 20, finally kicked the "third...