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...farmer, Northrup Knox, 28, of Buffalo, N.Y. and Aiken, S.C., demonstrated an almost tireless skill at the esoteric game of court tennis. After an afternoon's romp on the court at Boston's Tennis and Racquet Club, Knox left longtime (eight years) Champion Alastair Bradley Martin, 42, limp with exhaustion, won the U.S. amateur singles championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...rules of good sculpture. A case in point is Stankiewicz's The Warrior, which is armored with a hatmaker's discarded boiler, has a butane-bottle head and a boiler-plate shield. The Warrior's spindly steel rod legs, girded with buggy wheels, and its limp crest of dangling BX cable give it'away. Says Stankiewicz: "It's most menacing from the front, but it's futile in spite of its posture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Beauty of Junk | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Born. To Dean Martin, 39 (born Dino Crosetti), limp-tonsilled songbird and ex-straightman for Cinemoron Jerry Lewis, and Jeanne Biegger Martin, 30, onetime Miami model, his second wife: a daughter, their third child (his seventh). Name: Gina. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...Callas was in full command of her remarkable voice-never luscious, but potent as TNT. She might have been good under any circumstances, but playing opposite a tangibly evil George London as Scarpia and supported by an orchestra made almost superhuman by Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, she left the audience limp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Callas' Tosca | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...ever heard of a 172-lb. sausage 6 ft. tall? Is it a Walt Disney goldfish? It has the same sort of big, soft, beautiful eyes and long, curly lashes, but who ever heard of a goldfish with sideburns? Is it a corpse? The face just hangs there, limp and white with its little drop-seat mouth, rather like Lord Byron in the wax museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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