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...Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1941, conducts an opera workshop, Professor Howard R. Long declares: "When she puts on an opera, by God, it's an opera. I almost cry when I see these corn-fed kids belting that opera like pros." U.C.L.A. writing students will never forget hearing Novelist Isherwood confess that there were pages in one of his novels "that even I can no longer decipher...
...Sanders, 31, is the contemporary good-time Charlie of the pro-golf tour. Faced with a tricky shot, he has been known to march up to the prettiest face in the gallery, flash his warmest smile, and whisper hoarsely: "What do you suggest?" And at night-well, his fellow pros don't call him "Daiquiri Doug" for nothing. "I've spilled more than Tony
...have. By week's end he had tied Nicklaus for the top prize in the Jacksonville Open pro-amateur, picking up another $462.50. And he did it all with the silliest swing in golf. Sanders stands stiff-legged, brings his club back such a short way that other pros say he "could swing in a telephone booth." With Jack Nicklaus still looking for his first victory of the year, Gary Player trying to commute from South Africa, and Arnie Palmer semiretired from the tour-he has played in only five of ten tournaments-Sanders sees no reason...
Lonqest Logger. During most of the year, the boob tube is left to what Princeton calls "the viz squad. At the University of North Carolina they are "tubeholics," at Ohio State "TV majors " But the pros by any other nam are still the pros, and they log daily hours in front of TV that would make a union man scream for overtime pay; The leading contender for academe s top tubeman is the University of Texas Saleh Abdulrahman Athel, a studei from Saudi Arabia who started watching to learn English, then just stayed and stayed and stayed...
...explained DiLorenzo, who works behind a buzzer-opening locked door in a semicircular sanctum on the 64th floor of the Chrysler Building. He adds: "We like fast action-some days, if we're dealing with pros, five deals in one day. Knowing the product is what's important. Some people say I have an uncanny mind for next year's values...