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...Owner Rex Ellsworth pointed out, Swaps never reached top speed; a flared-up foot injury might have caused a slowdown. The injury will require surgery; Swaps will probably be out of racing until December. But Swaps's misfortunes did not dim Nashua's victory, which raised his earnings for Owner William Woodward Jr. to $882,565. Said triumphant Old Master Arcaro, who had ridden one of the shrewdest races of his 24 years in the saddle: "Nashua did everything that Mr. Fitz and I planned...
...Stravinsky's 1927 opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex, preceded by Ernst Krenek's three Medea monologues, sung by the Met's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom...
...team showed up next day hoping to stave off defeat in the doubles. As at Sydney, Trabert and Seixas played better together than apart, but they were still not good enough. They took the first set in a tenterhooks service duel, 14-12, against Hoad and steady Rex Hartwig, who at 26 is the old man of the Aussie team. But from then on the U.S. team was usually in trouble, striving to break through service. Trabert-Seixas occasionally shook Hoad with their "crossover" signal, but they could not shake Shotmaker Hartwig...
...world premieres of two new operas: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin and Stanley Hollingsworth's La Grande Breteche. Britain's Margot Fonteyn will dance in the ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. Ex-Ambassador Chester Bowles will give an hour-long report on India, and The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton, will be the first full-length movie to be presented on TV before being released to movie theaters...
This Island Earth (Universal) stays earthbound just a little too long as Scientist Rex Reason grows increasingly suspicious of a house party thrown by Jeff Morrow, an eggheaded visitor from outer space. But when Rex and his beautiful fellow scientist Faith Domergue try to escape, they are scooped into a flying saucer and whizzed off to the planet of Metaluna to help their hard-pressed host fight off some neighboring spacemen. The interplanetary war that follows has Metaluna looking like a giant pinball machine screaming "Tilt!" in seven different colors. What with dodging flaming meteors and grappling with odious mutants...