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...Negro, and she entered the aristocratic world of international tennis by the back door. Althea sneaked up on the game by playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem. She was 14 when she so impressed a Police Athletic League supervisor that he bought her a full-size racket. Later the pro at Harlem's Cosmopolitan Tennis Club taught her court tactics and coaxed her into daily practice. By 1948, at the age of 20, she was Negro women's champion. The prim and proper U.S.L.T.A. could not long evade inviting her to Forest Hills, and there...
Many a Clevelander was apprehensive while the new tunnel was under construction. Lesser tunnels at the same site jangled nerves with their dreadful racket. This tunnel has an enormous muffler in which even the loudest sounds get lost. A screaming siren can be carried into the muffler and become inaudible in a few yards. When the tunnel is in operation, its noise is reduced to levels acceptable at least to N.A.C.A.'s hardened neighbors. The tunnel works-late at night only, so its inordinate thirst for electricity will not slow the city of Cleveland...
...Harder They Fall (Columbia). When Budd Schulberg wrote the novel from which this picture is drawn, he hoped it might prove to be a sort of Uncle Tom's Cabin of the fight racket, a body blow to one of the least savory survivals of slavery in U.S. society: the tradition of the chattel athlete. Author Schulberg hit hard, but he was striking at bulletproof-vested interests, and in the nine years since he made his attack, these interests (on evidence adduced in recent investigations) seem to have grown even stronger. This picture will not seriously weaken them...
...trouble. If, this time, The Harder They Fall must fall, and fall it must, one can explain the phenomenon by saying there isn't too much to say that it doesn't say better itself. No viscous chestnut, The Harder They Fall pulls no punches in exposing the fight racket. Bogie gleefully battles out the old question of free will versus determinism in this thriller with metaphysical aspirations. The death of a boxer is seen as a boxer would see it. Any Bogie film is good; this one isn't. It has Rod Steiger, whose mock-murderous mood makes...
This mushroom growth has exposed the management consultant business to the withering charge that it is a fad, a fraud-and worse. In fact, says one consultant: "This isn't a profession; it's a racket." Many old corporate hands hoot at the whole business and its many fuzz-cheeked practitioners, recall that the affairs of one consult ant got so snarled up that the firm hired another to come in and tell it what...