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...difficult to tell definitely, but the most probable starters seem to be Hooper and Copeland. A much improved junior, Warren Huff, will be one of the top reserves...
...Highhanded and hardheaded as ever, the executive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association listened to a report from a special committee unanimously recommending open tournaments between pros and amateurs, hardly took time for a haughty huff before unanimously squelching the suggestion...
...madness in all this mad comedy was that Gogol himself thought he was defending the system he undermined. One critic got the point that Gogol had been trying to make. "Preacher of the lash," he called the muddled genius. After his first success. Gogol left Russia in a huff, spent twelve nostalgic years in self-imposed exile. He made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, slowly developed a religious mania and fell into the hands of a fanatic Russian Orthodox priest who persuaded Gogol that art was sinful. Thus an artist who all his life had been dissatisfied with...
...Comedian Sid Caesar announced last week that he had patched up two old breaks: 1) he telephoned Imogene Coca, his original mate on Your Show of Shows, and in a tear-choked chat won her consent to their TV reunion; 2) he called NBC, which he left in a huff in May because the network could find no sponsors for the costly ($110,000 a week), rating-laggard Caesar's Hour, TV's best comedy show. Subdued, after almost two months of contemplating a new season without him, Caesar offered to render unto NBC a "reasonably" priced half...
...Automobile Association that "anything is worth trying to reduce Britain's horrible casualty figure," Prince Philip tried to stop his elegant green Lagonda convertible when a Morris slowed for a turn, failed to brake fast enough, clonked into the tiny car. The Morris pilot hopped out in a huff, "thinking 'Some stupid clod's hit me,' " melted immediately when Philip cheerfully took the blame. Damage to Queen, Prince and commoner: none. To Philip's prestige as president of the auto association: sufficient dents that a London columnist suggested it would be just as well...