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Brown's sophomore quarterback, Jim Dunda, again showed that he may be headed for stardom as he led his team through rain, mud and Yalies to the game's lone touchdown. Yale could only produce two field goals...
...collected 18 base hits for a .486 average; a few weeks ago, he demolished the New York Yankees single-handed with a pair of home runs. Now that he has won All-Star honors in his first full year, Rich Rollins might be expected to relax and enjoy his stardom. But he still sits in the dugout, frowning through the glasses and writing notes on scraps of paper. "There's always somebody waiting to take your place," he says grimly. "Baseball is the most insecure profession I know...
...grand old tradition of kiss-and-sell, sultry Parisian Singer Juliette Greco, 35, let upwards of 10 million European readers in on the details of her four-year whirl with Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, 59, who took her from cellar cafes to stardom in The Roots of Heaven. "What can a young woman see in an elderly tycoon with a toothbrush mustache, who smokes like a chimney, speaks through his nose and is perpetually angry?" asked Juliette in serialized memoirs in Paris Match and London's weekly People. The answer, said she, was that "I have always loved lost...
Best amateur to stroll the links since the days of Bobby Jones and Lawson Little, burly Jack Nicklaus, 22, seemed a cinch for instant stardom when he turned professional last January. Twice U.S. amateur champion, runner-up to Arnold Palmer in the 1960 U.S. Open, Nicklaus was almost unbeatable on the amateur circuit-and his aggressive, intimidating game seemed ideally suited to the challenge of the rich pro tour. His explosive drives averaged nearly 300 yds. His crisp irons were distinguished by the shovel-sized divots they left behind. His putting was bold and confident. But in his first...
Parallelogram. Beatty actually got his first major acting job in William Inge's A Loss of Roses on Broadway two years ago, earning critical praise for his own performance in a play that sank without bubbles. Although his movie stardom has not yet been tested at the box office, he has already reached a position from which he can choose his roles. Now working with Eva Marie Saint in Producer John Houseman's All Fall Down (from James Leo Herlihy's novel), he may do The Leopard with Sir Laurence Olivier...