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Billed as the "Bridge Battle of the Century," the four-week Lenz-Culbertson match was the most publicized card joust in history. The wire services had top reporters covering the match from start to finish, papers put out extras on results, and readers who could not tell a doubleton from a double followed the daily point score. Lenz and Jacoby got off to an early lead, but at the end of the 150th rubber the Culbertson partnership was ahead by 8,980 points, and Lenz paid up. That ended any small remaining doubt about whether Culbertson...
...Film Academy: "I don't think books have suffered much from magazine competition. I don't see why films, which are, after all, animated books, should suffer from television, which is simply an animated magazine." Later in an arduous week, the Prince scratched himself from a tiddlywinks joust to which he had been challenged by the Cambridge University team. He said with regret that he would have liked to lead his team, the Goons, but "unfortunately, while practicing secretly, I pulled an important muscle in the second or tiddly joint of my winking finger. Wink up. fiddle...
...joust began with an assault on Britain by Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Much hung on Averoff's performance. If he failed to win Greece a respectful hearing in the U.N., Premier Constantine Karamanlis' shaky pro-American government would be in deep trouble. (During a recent Greek parliamentary debate on Cyprus, Karamanlis was called "traitor" a dozen times within an hour...
...father, Oakland Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland, now 83, to take over the family burdens if necessary. Since California's State Capitol in Sacramento is only a neighborly 90 miles from Oakland, Knowland by no means rules out the possibility that in two years he may decide to joust with Goodie Knight-an endeavor in which he would have the ardent support of Knight-blind California Republicans, currently including the powerful Los Angeles Times. Then, as governor of the second largest state, he might well emerge in 1960 as a powerful candidate for the presidential nomination...
Plumes for the Joust. "A homogeneous suit of medieval armor is much rarer than a medieval castle or cathedral," says the Met's Arms and Armor Curator Stephen V. Grancsay. But the few suits that have survived show that by the mid-15th century, armorers had achieved near perfection in their art. Making suits of as many as 120 separate pieces, they could completely sheathe a knight in skillfully molded armor, elegant in its burnished, plain surfaces, and so meticulously fitted that it followed the play of each muscle, the hinging of each joint. Viewed simply as objects...