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There is still much to be done in the field of protective armor for the football player. Helments, for instance, are difficult to improve. Even with modern, lightweight materials, a "crash-proof" helmet is still too heavy to wear, Suggestions are legion; one bizarre idea was to cover the outside of the helmet with sponge to cushion the impact. "But the beauty of it is that manufactures are working in cooperation with doctors," Fadden said...
...Still, it was obvious that Hoover had been chafing for a long time in his unfamiliar role as a Justice Department underling, and his reverberating blast to the newshens was one way to ease that frustration. J. Edgar Hoover has many old foes, has made a legion of new ones recently; undoubtedly there will be vastly increased pressures on the White House from now on to boot the old fellow...
...journal covers the years from 1932 to 1940 when Genet, a lazy young homosexual, ran with pimps, thieves and Foreign Legion deserters (Genet had been a legionnaire long enough to collect the enlistment money). It is a confession, but not the kind in which remorse is pretended. Genet's self-revelation is mischievous, unrepentant, and not to be trusted. Genet strokes his central paradox-that total degradation can produce spiritual exaltation-as if it were a pet cat. Speaking of his beggar's lice, he says: "Having become -as useful for the knowledge of our decline as jewels...
...some of his favorite four-letter words. But Sartre has lately found a fresher vein; in his autobiographical The Words (TIME, Oct. 9) he reminisces simply and compellingly about his unhappy childhood, from which he eventually escaped into literature as others escape into religion, business, or the Foreign Legion...
...went on to Harvard Law School, playing the piano for anyone who would listen. In World War I, he joined the French Foreign Legion, emerged in 1919 to marry a sparkling debutante, Linda Lee Thomas, whose wealth matched his own. In the next two decades, he skimmed along in the clear blue, living his international life often at a pace of seven parties per night, residing now at his retreat in the Berkshires, now in his Paris town house, now in his glass palacette in Los Angeles, now in his palazzo in Venice, now in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers...