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...when the weather stops on double zero. They are what Owner George Hamid calls the "high blue collar types." To keep them coming, Hamid gives them much more than corny carny fare, pays top fees for entertainment headliners. Among this season's top drawers: the Stan Kenton and Glenn Miller bands, Xavier Cugat, Charlie Spivak and Gene Krupa, along with such juvenescent goldbugs as Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker, Paul Anka, and the comparable Fabian, whose singing debut was made at the pier's Kiddies Theater a short time ago, when he was twelve...
Detroit and Cleveland, fighting for first place in the American League, clubbed nine between them in one game; Detroit, out-homered 5-4, won anyway, 15-7. The St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial walloped two against San Francisco to give him a lifetime total of 1,292 extra-base hits, within swatting distance of Babe Ruth's 1,356. Team of the week: the Milwaukee Braves, with 15 home runs. Man of the week: New York Yankee Outfielder Roger Maris, who hit four to raise his season's total to 27 and put him twelve games ahead...
...Newport, R.I.--VI 7-3095 in Newport). Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Ramsey Lewis, Maynard Ferguson, Cannonball Adderly, and Carmen McRae are on the first night, June 30. Count Basic, Chico Hamilton, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Gloria Lynn, and Slife Hampton Perform July 1: Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Anita O'Day, Art Blakey, the Jazztet, George Shearing, and Eddie Harris take over Sunday
...KENNEDY CIRCLE, edited by Lester Tanzer (315 pp.; Robert B. Luce, Inc.; $4.95); THE KENNEDY GOVERNMENT, by Stan Opotowsky (208 pp.; Dutton; $3.95), are two more quickie efforts on the same subject. Both are collections of sketches of the strong men in the Kennedy Government, and as with most sketchbooks, their quality varies. The Kennedy Circle is the most variable since it was gathered from the blacksheets of 14 top Washington correspondents. Its best feature is its occasional irreverence: New York Times's Elie Abel makes Defense Secretary Robert McNamara a character of almost comic naiveté when...
...Crimson was superb in the field events. Stan Doten gave the varsity its only first with a 189 ft., 10 in, heave in the hammer, as Ted Bailey took second and Roger Wilson fifth. John Bronstein was fifth in the discus...