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...given to Cambridge University by Diarist Samuel Pepys 278 years ago. Put together by William Caxton, the 15th century Englishman who first set English in movable type, the first half of the Ovid manuscript brought a record auction price of $252,000 at Sotheby's last week from Lew Feldman, a rare-book dealer in New York, who has recently picked up such prizes as T. S. Eliot's manuscript of The Waste Land. Says he: "The Ovid is of such startling uniquity that I doubt anything comparable will come up again...
...accents like badges-it is no longer necessary to affect an Oxford accent to get ahead. Some of the new voices have a cockney lilt; from London's own working-class East End come Actors Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, Playwrights Arnold Wesker and Harold Pinter, Television Magnate Lew Grade, Textilemen Joe Hyman and Nikki Seekers. Others breeze in from the coal-mining North Country. There are bluff Yorkshiremen like the P.M. or Actor Peter O'Toole, Albert Finney from Manchester, Playwright Shelagh Delaney, who wrote A Taste of Honey in Salford...
...slight (5 ft. 7 in.), polite Ken Rosewall, also an Australian and evidently a has-been at 31, since Laver had pushed him off the top of the heap last year. In the quarterfinals, Gonzales gave Rosewall something to think about by trouncing his onetime Davis Cup twin, Lew Hoad, 31, by a decisive...
Carty put Alcindor on a crash training program. For openers each day, Lew had to jump up and touch a line on the backboard 15 times in a row. The line was 11½ ft. high. Next, Alcindor practiced "stuffing" shots-jamming balls into the basket from above. After that, Carty and Lew squared off for a game of two-man basketball: the winner was the first to score 20 points. "I jumped on him," admits Carty. "I did everything I could to try and rattle...
...last, Lew was ready for a public game against the Bruin varsity, the No. 1-ranked college team in the U.S. Alcindor scored 31 points, pulled down 21 rebounds, blocked 7 shots, and the Brubabes clobbered the Bruins, 75-60. All of which may just make the U.C.L.A. freshmen the best team in the U.S.-considering that the varsity then went out and clobbered Ohio State...