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...pieces just knowing that his father is in the stands. In the early informal days, the proud father, longing to see his son, would sneak up on the game, skulking from tree to tree at the country club. But the son ?mysteriously sensitive to his father's presence???always blew up on the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...weak pictures wherein he was miscast. Given his professional fears and the economic spareness of his beginnings, it is not hard to understand why he would shy from the stage toward the greater money and simpler disciplines of pictures, even though his strongest characteristics?controlled flamboyance and overwhelming physical presence???are stunted and sealed off on film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Man on the Billboard | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

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