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...world of sport-except to the college teams that came up against him at Tennessee State University, an obscure, mostly Negro school for which he was virtually a one-man track team. Then, for last summer's Olympic trials, the lanky (6 ft. 11n., 164 lbs.) athlete from Laurel, Miss.* decided to concentrate on the broad jump. Ever since then, his searching left hand has reached for records, and his power-packed legs have made him the world's finest broad jumper...
College Family. Son of a boilermaker's helper who never got past the fourth grade, Boston, now 22, is the youngest of ten children-all of whom went to college. He played baseball at five, quarterbacked his high school football team in Laurel and ran hurdles well enough to earn an athletic scholarship to Tennessee State (which has also turned out such female sprinters as Wilma Rudolph and Lucinda Williams). A straight B student in biochemistry despite his frequent absences, Boston hopes to enter medical school after graduation next January...
Stewart plays the heavy convincingly, but Director Ford is not satisfied with the melodrama that falls out of the over turned cliché, and he switches tracks again. For those still willing to string along, there is a fist fight somewhat less solemn than a Laurel and Hardy pie throwing, then a lynching in which no last-minute rescuer shows up. Director Ford's effort might be compared to the pastime of a successful gunfighter who, between important assassinations, lies on his back in a hotel room, drinks dark ale, and obliterates with his six-gun all the flies...
...custom for the spreading laurel tree...
...ceremony's a name for the rich horn/And custom for the spreading laurel tree," as W. B. Yeats put it in a wedding poem,* this June the horn is richer than ever, and the laurels are spreading so thick that it is getting harder and harder to make one's way to church. With 195,000 brides to be married this month, the booking problem is so acute in the nation's churches that the Lady Chapel in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral must be reserved nine months in advance; at the Little Church...