Word: riders
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Catherine Lacoste, 22, is a fair-to-middling horseback rider, an energetic handball, volleyball and basketball player, a strong bowler and-by her own admission-a "lousy" tennis player. Which may be a source of some disappointment to her father René, who as France's famed "Crocodile" of the 1920s, twice won the U.S. and Wimbledon championships. But girls are supposed to take after their mothers anyway, and Catherine's mother, the former Simone Thion de la Chaume, is a golfer-the winner of six French amateur titles. Last week, at the Cascades Golf Club...
Fort Utah. An Indian moves stealthily among rocks, then drops down on a lone rider. They grapple in a knife-and-death struggle. The scene, portrayed for what must be the millionth time, begins this assembly-line film, which includes almost every other cliche known to Western man. Nearly as old as the plot are the actors. An aging gunfighter (John Ireland), fleeing from his reputation, meets up with a wagon train carrying an aging, golden-haired lady (Virginia Mayo). Soon they are pursued by an aging villain (Scott Brady) and some aging Indians. In the end, Ireland blasts...
...Rider" by Jeffrey Doran--one of the issue's two stories--is the most engaging inclusion in the magazine. Set in a rickety and failing Catskill resort, it presents in elaborate and fascinating detail a complex situation between two friends, one of whom has come to tell the other that he "had stolen his forever-possible girl." Doran lets the story tell itself, relying almost entirely on dialogue which captures the private humor of a close friendship and gives remarkably clear sketches of both individuals...
...difficulties in "Photograph" and the success of "Rider" pretty well take in the range of fluctuations within the entire issue--from the well-written but dull to the lively and engaging. But the magazine's infrequent lapses don't even take up much space, and most of the issue is an energetic presentation of basically interesting material. All of which suggests that the Advocate, despite its austere celebration of the Centennial, has not succumbed to the boring impotence of senility...
...last week the Sigma Chis were right back at it, under the watchful eye of Senior Richard Delanoy, who has devised a safety measure for the sport. Four Sigma Chis line up downwind, like baseball outfielders; whenever Gus blows too strong and the rider seems on the verge of liftoff, the outfielders rush the chute and plunge headlong into it, thereby safely collapsing the nylon canopy. "It's exciting when you see that chute billow out and you begin to move," said A. G. Phillips at the end of his parachute ride. "You feel that...