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Like the school bully putting the new boy in his place, Pancho Gonzales has used his bazooka drives and serves to humiliate every fair-haired lad who quit amateur tennis to take a crack at his professional title, which Pancho has held since 1954. Fairest-haired of all the challengers has been Aussie Lew Hoad, a blond muscleman with the forearm of a weight lifter, who challenged Gonzales in 1958 after conquering the amateur world. As usual, Gonzales treated the newcomer like an upstart kid, routed Hoad 51-36 on their first barnstorming tour of professional matches...
Slugger Colavito, 25, is a rugged (6 ft. 3 in., 190 lbs.) lad, whose rippling biceps seem to make visible bulges on the television screen. The son of a Bronx truck driver, Rocky grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, played ball just across the street in Macomb's Dam Park. Naturally, the Yankees were his boyhood heroes. Naturally, the Yankees gave him a tryout when he was only 16, but let him get away when the Indians topped the Yankees' half-hearted bid with a still modest offer of $3,000. Last year, in his second...
...asking too much bread (cash). Duke is forced to take a job. Says the local marijuana wholesaler: "I look forward to the time when there be men of wisdom in Washington & I can provide my Staff with the Blue Cross & vacations with pay ... Oh if we was legal Lad. If ony we was legal like the other cigarette companies. Every year I'd plow back one percent of the gross inta advertising . . . Girl sittin in a swing-lots of flowers an things aroun her indicating she is accustom to the better things life offers-an under...
...play is still pretty funny-the tale of a misogynist farmer who keeps trying to get rid of a rich Athenian lad in love with his daughter. (Solution: the farmer falls down his well, is rescued with the help of the swain, grudgingly hands over his daughter.) Funniest part is the traffic of devout Athenians to the temple of Pan near the farmer's shack; their animal "sacrifices" always turn out to be raucous sheep barbecues with only the bones left for Pan. Horizon's translator (and chief editorial adviser) is Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet, the lively author...
...kinda funny when Ah say 'Perish on mah sword,' " mused a Colt-toting Texas lad, and it may be even funnier than he supposed. This week he and 27 other Texas students are due in London with what is likely to be the oddest U.S. export to Britain this year-an "adult western" version of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, produced by Howard Payne College (enrollment: 1,100), a Baptist school in Brownwood, west of Waco...