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...first game tonight, it will be Clarkson's solidity against the flashy brilliance of Colby. It seems unlikely that 100-point man Rou Ryan can score enough to match the output of the well-balanced Clarkson six, and the Mule defense is erratic...
...country's garish blend of poverty and promise in giant murals done with a fiery palette mixed from Brazilian earths; of a stroke following cumulative lead poisoning induced by his own pigments; in Rio de Janeiro. An Italian immigrant's son who once painted signs for mule carts, Portinari was the first South American ever given a one-man show by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and, though an avowed Communist for much of his career, accepted commissions for a portrait of former Brazilian President Janio Quadros for TIME'S cover (June...
...really, as it turns out. The Khyber Pass becomes old West Injun country, British regimentals become U.S. cavalrymen, and Gunga Din's tame elephant becomes Sammy Davis' big white mule. But Sinatra is no Grant, Dean Martin no McLaglen, and Peter Lawford, a man who looks undressed when not surrounded by a drawing room, is assuredly no Fairbanks. The Clansmen loaf kiddingly through their parts, acquiring suntans. No one, of course, bothers to look bothered as the hostiles approach. Such expressions as are evident reflect the sudsy affability of a pipe fitters' picnic (Hey, get a load...
...Davis, blind in one eye and haggard with headaches, was a moderate who could say to his wife, even after the Confederacy under his presidency had fired on Fort Sumter: "Separation is not yet, of necessity, final. There has been no blood spilled more precious than that of a mule...
...Fort Campbell, Ky., the 101st Airborne is as ready to go as a sprinter braced on the starting blocks. Everything the division owns can be carried by air except the barracks: 25-ton M41 tanks, antitank guns, Jeeps, the "mechanical mule" (a kind of motorized flatbed wagon), field kitchens, ground radar, and the 15-mile Honest John rocket, which can be fitted with a nuclear warhead. One company (300 men) is always ready to move out within an hour; an entire battle group (1,800 men) can be on its way in four. Every morning, every man on alert assumes...