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...Texas. Last week, to stir the nation's interest in the new contender for the heavyweight crown (he is due to fight Champion Floyd Patterson in Los Angeles on Aug. 18), TelePrompTer Corp. offered a Texas junket to some of Yankeeland's top sportswriters. What the ringside pros saw left them happy, dazed, full of copy, and fat pigeons for TelePrompTer's pressagents...
Jimmy Giuffre's The Pentatonic Man. In last week's concert, the band started stiffly, and the rhythm section never got completely untracked; but by the time they closed the set, the European cats were playing with the cohesive drive of a bunch of much-practiced pros...
...spent more than a generation tending every breed of party animal. Genial Billy Murray, a Presbyterian six-footer with a scoutmaster's look of integrity and energy, made up for lost time by running a handshaking "survey" of voters in all 99 counties, asking the old pros of all factions for the advice they love to give. Some of them fell so in love with their own advice that they joined Murray's bandwagon, and in last week's primary it rolled to a thoroughly professional 110,000-to-85,000 victory over Lieut. Governor Nicholas...
Wilt got a fat fee from Look for his story, will not be eligible for the pros until his college class graduates next year. But the figure of $25,000 seems to attract him. After he gets back from his barnstorming tour, he plans to demand just that amount in salary from the Philadelphia Warriors...
Helped by a superb set of costumes and stage furnishings (including their own axes and logs, since "English ones might not have the right ring"), 15 well-disciplined M.A.T. pros, descendants of the group that "Method" Director Konstantin Stanislavsky helped to found 60 years ago, gave their Chekhov a faithfully reproduced period atmosphere. But their exuberant performance carefully nurtured the most hopeful stems in his grim orchard, and pruned out the darker growths in his vision of social decay. Trofimov, for example, a pompous dreamer in most Western versions, becomes more the fiercely earnest youth, obviously the bright hope...