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Voice from the Widely Bimps. When he isn't exploding all over the basketball court, Frank Keaney is a good-natured Irishman who saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples...
...Dailey's two-pointer under the basket and high-scorer John Rockwell's foul shot with slightly more than a minute to play brought the Crimson to 45, but the crowd came to its feet in vain with five seconds remaining as Rockwell's one-hander slithered off the rim and the horn sounded...
Your review of the French-dialogued, made-in-Italy Carmen [TIME, Dec. 2] mentions "Escamillo's smugglers." Unless this particular movie scrambles Mérimée, Bizet and all traditional Carmens, you must be scrambling the Gypsy Girl's boy friends. "Garcia's smugglers" maybe, or even "Don Josè's smugglers," but surely Escamillo still sticks to his bull ring...
...them in Columbia, but there was no safety there-the white folks were still on edge, remembering the ugly outbreak in Mink Slide last spring (TIME, March 11). So the Negroes were taken to safe haven in Nashville. Many of the people of the Bluegrass Bowl and the Highland Rim felt better because a lynching had been averted...
...came out. San Antonio still waited tensely. Then the suspense ended. The sudden storm had killed six people, made 5,000 temporarily homeless, caused $5,000,000 in damages. But the dam, with the water from a mile-long lake lapping up within six feet of its rim, stood firm...