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Four on One? Robertson is the best player in college basketball today. As a sophomore last season, the "Big O" beat out such stars as Seattle's Elgin Baylor and Kansas' Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain for national scoring honors, made 984 points (average: 35.14 a game), was named Player of the Year. This year he is better still...
...Keeping his eye fixed on all possibilities of turning a fast buck, Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, the 7-ft.-2-in. lapsed amateur from the University of Kansas (TIME, June 2) looked over the basketball season ahead and announced a change of plans. Rather than gamble on taking his own team on tour, Wilt decided on a sure thing. He signed a one-year contract with those skillful showboaters, the Harlem Globetrotters...
Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain is a lanky (7 ft. 2 in., 225 Ibs.) Philadelphia Negro with a delicate talent for dunking basketballs through 10-ft.-high hoops and an understandable urge to see his skill pay off. But high-paying summer jobs and a free ride at the University of Kansas have not added up to enough cash, says Wilt in the current issue of Look Magazine. "I'm quitting college basketball, even though I have a season's eligibility remaining and a year to go for my degree. I am arranging a big barnstorming tour...
...lives with his wife in a wood-and-glass, stilt-supported house in Berkeley, composes in a studio tucked below next to the garage. When he wrote his ambitious concerto, he had scant hope that it would be played, but went ahead anyway because "I wanted to express everything I could." His "everything" proved to be quite enough for the critics. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein : "If it is all a total failure, the festival will nevertheless have been justified because it occasioned the first performance of Andrew Imbrie's Violin Concerto. It impressed...
...cultivating his backyard (with an occasional foray into Pennsylvania), Schaus has created an anomaly in big-time college basketball: a home-grown team. North Carolina combs the New York subway circuit for its players, and Kansas stretched out to Philadelphia for Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain. But Schaus finds his stars in towns like East Bank (pop. 1,500) and Shinnston (pop. 2,793). As a result, the state rightly looks on the team as its own, not a high-priced import, follows its games with chauvinistic zeal...