Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas is the exception which proves the rule that the top man on a squash ladder is usually the best all-around player. He stands alone, unchallenged, with only one loss. But he isn't a smooth, poised player like Captain Pete Milton or third place Martin Hockshire. He lacks the finesse of Milton's stroke and the sharp court tactics of Hockshire. Corey explains the dilemma with "he's a fighter, with terrific power, the kind of guy who never lots...
...Riviera villa of his friend the Aga Khan to celebrate his 79th birthday. For the occasion, he had a further observation: "The public gets used to a writer . . . Longevity also allows a writer, if he's old enough, to influence three generations of readers. But it isn't having written a lot that makes one respected. What makes a writer and what makes him a success is, in my opinion, solely his personality. Whether it's good or bad, it's necessary to have a personality. Every day I get letters from people...
...mind seems almost as wiry as her body. "There isn't a crossword puzzle I can't finish in half an hour," Babe admits modestly. She likes to play gin rummy but is too good at it to get many opponents. The once lonely, homely tomboy is now a social success; she is an extremely graceful ballroom dancer and the life of almost any party, doing imitations of herself as a child singing I Get the Blues When It Rains, or hauling out a harmonica and rocking into a hillbilly air. Babe once banked $3,500 for taking...
...days Strongman General Mohammed Naguib would mark six months in power; Cairenes looked forward to three days of carnival and rejoicing. But in quiet corners at cocktail parties and intimate dinners of "informed circles," the whisper went: "Stick around, this thing isn't over yet. There are more fireworks to come...
...world knows and honors Henri Matisse for his color-drenched canvases. But, at 83, France's ailing master is anxious to be known for his work in another medium before he dies: his sculpture. There isn't much of it, and only rarely has it been shown. Last week London's Tate Gallery gladly obliged the old man with the largest exhibit of Matisse sculpture ever shown, 49 pieces, almost all of his output in clay and bronze...