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Horrible Armlock. Hank was perhaps the first victim of Soapy's grim determination. "Soapy was a muscle man when we were kids," he says. "That was the time of Lionel Strongfort, and Charles Atlas was just starting to advertise in a big way. Soapy used to get all of...
Broken Records. After the first day's events, the Russian smiles were broader than ever. In the first track & field final, Nina Romaschkova, a blonde Russian Amazon, stepped up and heaved the discus 168 ft. 8½ in., an Olympic record. Minutes later, Czechoslovakia's loose-jointed Emil...
Tall (6 ft., 1 in.) and as slim as in undergraduate days, Dr. Wood walked to the dais with an athlete's loose-jointed stride and crisply announced that he would take "as short a time as possible, so that we may proceed to the main program" (27 highly...
"I want to make statues," says Fazzini, "which seem to ascend to heaven, sculptures which express the prayers and sacrifices of men in the face of infinite time and infinite space." For all his high aspirations, most of the Fazzinis on display were pleasantly down-to-earth. They were studies...
Sutton decided what a jazz piano should sound like when he first heard some Fats Waller records as a Howell, Mo. grade-school boy. Employed in the six-man dance band which his father led as a weekend hobby, twelve-year-old Ralph soon began disorganizing the outfit with Waller...