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...felt in every Wisconsin city and town. The far north town of Superior (pop. 33,563) is losing a high school principal, superintendent of student teaching, basketball coach and 55 students at Wisconsin State College. Medford (pop. 1,622) is sending its mayor, its city attorney and three teachers. Rib Lake (pop. 794) is losing its only physician, Dr. Robert Pettera. Says Pet-tera: "I knew when I signed up that I had to be ready for something like this...
...Baseman Charlie Smith, 23, tried so hard that they drove themselves to exhaustion and had to be benched. After collisions with a wall in St. Louis and a Scoreboard in Pittsburgh, Utility Outfielder Bobby Gene Smith went right on giving his all-until a physical examination revealed a broken rib. In the locker room, heads rarely sagged in despair. "We all felt we were going to win each day," said Pitcher Art Mahaffey, who lost ten games in a row. "If you lose that feeling, you might as well quit." Said Veteran Outfielder Lee Walls. 28, who played...
This gives Author Ian Brook (a pseudonym) plenty of opportunity to rib the retreating Empire right up to No. 10 Downing Street, and to fire deft, satiric shots at everybody from an American anthropologist studying illiteracy among Alabasa's albinos to the new class of boorish, lawyer-bred African politicians ("The Prime Minister of the Colony laughed and picked at the hard skin on the ball of his foot"). Except for a dramatically faulty attempt to give Jimmy a realistic love affair, out of keeping with the otherwise admirably sustained, two-dimensional tone of spoof, Jimmy Riddle emerges...
...sandy-haired, ham-handed ex-sailor from La Jolla, Calif. A reserved, coldly efficient man dubbed "Gene the Machine" and "Stone Face." he was runnerup in the 1954 Open. But then he went into a disastrous slump, and had yet to redeem his promise. Out of play with a rib injury early this year, he had not won a tournament, but he was slowly regaining his old style and steadily perfecting his putting...
...animal kingdom with a more graceful sense of fantasy. A boar's mane is not just so much wild and scraggly hair, but a crescent of curls to be worn like a crown. A tiger's body is as supple as an accordion: every muscle, every rib, every stripe is there. A deer, though kneeling, seems to be darting through the air while its antlers ripple and bend like plumes. This quivering creature defies and submits at the same time, as if knowing that from the same hand it will receive both death and immortality...