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...lovesick Willie, Kenneth Nelson has his Tarkingtonian moments, captures some of the fearful gentility and capering solemnity of one whose heart may or may not be breaking, but whose voice unquestionably is. Harrison Muller is a show-stopper as the superior Yaleman who breezes in for a visit in his Winton 6. But various long-suffering grown-ups just go through stock-company motions, and that great pioneer in brathood, Willie's kid sister Jane, today seems just another brat. Ann Crowley, who is a pleasant enough ingenue as Lola, seldom becomes Tarkington's baby-talking, beau-snatching...
Giegengack will put Sidney Williams in the 120-yard high hurdles, hoping to see the high stopper better his 15.2 time of last Saturday. The discus will be handled by Robert Spears and Phillip Swett who can only manage an average of 145 feet...
...Shopper-Stopper. Boston's Jordan Marsh department store last week began televising its own fashion shows in color to three receivers within the store, plans to place 20 more receivers in the store and in show windows...
...time: 4:31, 2/10 of a second under his own year-old record. Against 36 Eastern colleges the Yale team swam off with eight of 14 titles. ¶ At Chicago, Don Gehrmann, the Banker's Mile in 4:09.7, over FBI-man Fred Wilt. The show-stopper in the Chicago Daily News relays: the Rev. Bob Richards' pole-vault of 15 ft. 4¾ in., his highest yet, but still three inches short of Cornelius Warmerdam's world record. ¶ At Kansas City, Hamline University, the small college National Intercollegiate (N.A.I.B.) basketball championship, from James Millikin University...
...stage, Russell found that his new guise could be a show-stopper too. In a bemused, horn-rimmed way, Russell has become something of a matinee idol, has done for the morale of the spectacle-wearing bookworm what Ezio Pinza did for the middle-aged man. His television appearances have brought him fan mail from all over the country. Grateful mothers often write to thank him for helping reconcile their teen-age sons to glasses...