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WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A wily Texas canine matches wits with a thief intent on stealing from an itinerant peddler's wagon in "Pancho, Fastest Paw in the West...
...tall lanky editor of the Paris Review has also offered up his body for three boxing rounds against Archie Moore, suffered humiliation across the tennis net from Pancho Gonzales, floundered in the watery wake of Swimmer Don Schollander, lost at bridge to Oswald Jacoby, and banged percussion instruments with the New York Philharmonic. He is, in effect, the actor of the average man's Walter Mitty dreams-the real-life agent of vicarious thrills. And now, in The Bogey Man, Plimpton records the humorous agonies of his experience as a mock-professional golfer...
...tournament that was a disaster for the professionals, 13 of whom lost to amateurs, Ashe himself defeated three pros. To get past Okker, a dogged retriever and a swift, agile shotmaker, Ashe had to play his best tennis ever. He hit 26 service aces, prompting Old Pro Pancho Gonzales to marvel that Arthur's cannonball was "the fastest serve since my own." Ashe's flat, accurate backhands were no less ferocious, drawing raves of "fantastic" and "tremendous" from another old master, Don Budge. Okker prolonged the contest as much as he could, but finally stood helpless as Ashe...
First highly seeded pro to fall was No. 8, Pancho Gonzales, beaten by Alexander Metreveli, an unseeded Russian who was happy just "to play against such famous men as Gonzales." After Pancho, the deluge. Australia's Lew Hoad (No. 7) was dumped by South Africa's Bob Hewitt, also unseeded; Aussie Roy Emerson (No. 5) lost to The Netherlands' Tom Okker, and Spain's Andres Gimeno (No. 3) went down before Ray Moore, a long-haired, self-styled hippie, who ranks only No. 3 in his home country of South Africa...
...Fokker D-VII, both slated for exhibition in a future air museum in New Jersey. But such, at least, was not the case with one beat-up, prop-less oldtimer, listed as the "Travelair Mystery Ship." "Mystery ship, hell!" snorted Oldtime Aviatrix Florence Lowe ("Pancho") Barnes. "I bought this ship in 1930 and flew it to two women's world speed records." When she made the winning bid of $4,300 for her old plane, which had been in Mantz's collection, the crowd stood and applauded. Pancho Barnes, for her part, guaranteed to have her old ship...