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...Shame." Two months ago Snell ran a half-mile in Honolulu, then a mile in Los Angeles. He won both races, but his time for the half-mile (1 min. 53.8 sec.) was only soso. He ran an 880-yd. race against Canada's Bill Crothers in Toronto. On the last turn, Snell pulled his usual ploy, turned on a great burst of speed for the final sprint, but Crothers hung on, passed him 40 yds. from the tape. "My legs felt dead," complained Snell...
...TIME'S June 11 article on the Gemin14 flight, I note that James McDivitt attended "tiny" Jackson Junior College. Next fall we will enroll about 2,250 students. We are no longer tiny. You say Major McDivitt was a "soso" student; actually, he had a 3.4 grade point average and graduated with honors. Perhaps you would be interested in the complete statement on his college application form: "Although engineering appeals to me very much, I would rather be an explorer and novelist. The excitement of exploring and the peace and quiet of writing seem like the perfect combination." Major...
Maniac is a lethal little thriller that succeeds in spite of itself. The acting and direction are soso, and the character motivations cloudy. But the picture has an ingenious, neatly reticulated plot that packs some walloping surprises. An acetylene torch is the deadly weapon that keeps suspense sizzling...
...funds fare? In general, just soso. Taken as a whole, the nation's 200-odd mutual funds went into 1962 with $23 billion in assets, and by the end of last week were down to $19.1 billion. Their overall drop of 17.3% was less than the 21% decline of the Dow-Jones industrial average in the same period, but was no better than the performance achieved by many a well-informed individual investor...
...Prize Winner Pasternak," trumpeted the gaily colored cover. Actually, the book was neither new nor a novel. Scarcely longer than a long short story, The Last Summer was first published in Leningrad 25 years ago, some two decades before Doctor Zhivago was written. Last year, with a shorter introduction (soso) and in the same translation (first-rate), the story appeared in the U.S. in a collection of poems and articles entitled Noonday 1. It sold an unexciting 10,000 copies. With a bustling campaign of come-on ads and a first printing of 250,000, Avon hopes to do better...