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...fighter pilot, Nelson, 37, served his apprenticeship on Broadway as a playwright (The Wind Is Ninety) and as an actor and stage manager in a six-year stint with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. He thinks the theater and television are on divergent courses. TV, he argues, has a different pace than the stage and infinitely more mobility: "I use three cameras on each show and, in effect, have three prosceniums." TV actors become puppets of the director, since "an actor never knows when a camera might...
...Yale, a last minute touchdown pass against Princeton Saturday ended both a six-year era of Big Three mediocrity, and some newer 1953 discouragements. Starting with the pro-season injury to Ed Eolloy and extending to disheartening ties with Cornell and Colgate, and an amazing 32 to 0 loss to Dartmouth, the Elis, picked as one of the East's best teams in August, had shown a disturbing fall impotence...
Foxhunter is the Man o' War of show jumpers at an age (12) when most horses are just beginning to master the jumping facts of life.* In a six-year career at the hedges and fences, Foxhunter has won more than 90 blue ribbons in international-jumping competitions, captured Britain's George V Cup three times, and placed twice in the Olympic games, a bronze (third) in 1948, a gold (first) in 1952. Foxhunter is, as Llewellyn lovingly calls him, "a great athlete...
...commenting on the results of a six-year study of the country's medical schools...
...places was accounted part of the very system of government. Drawing salaries too low to support their families, petty bureaucrats, cops and inspectors took their "bite" as a legitimate and necessary part of their living. In the highest ranks, public office was private opportunity, and during the recently completed six-year regime of handsome, youthful-looking President Miguel Alemán, the carefree cynicism of the grabbing reached its highest, or lowest, point. It was more than Mexicans could take, and when the time came, the Party of Revolutionary Institutions-Mexico's only real political party-read the popular...