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Encouraged by Trabert's win, Seixas strode confidently forth to take on Australia's Ken Rosewall, who had beaten him eight times in the last two years. For weeks U.S. Captain Bill Talbert had been showing Seixas, not an overpowering hitter, how to win points off Rosewall's relatively weak forehand. Seixas learned that lesson well. His net play was as good as ever...
...valet carefully blue-rinsed Marshal Tito's silver hair. The Marshal donned a corset, a medal-spangled uniform with extremely wide red stripes down the pants, then strode off to a fashionable garden party. Behind him through lines of bowing guests, like a plainly dressed retainer showing off a gorgeous bull mastiff, came India's Jawaharlal Nehru. After several days of such festivity, the Marshal decided that he should also demonstrate that he was a Socialist man of the people. Tito thereupon upset New Delhi's snob-laden society by inviting red-turbaned railroad porters...
...Madrid, Movie Director John (The African Queen) Huston strode from a bar to a courtyard next door, with cape and sword braved the rushes of a small bull with blunted horns. When Huston executed a couple of passable pases naturales, café aficionados, astonished at the amateur torero's skill, acclaimed him with "Olé, Juan, olé!" Huston was all for fighting the beast to some sort of finish, but a pressagent rescued the director before he found the pastime goring...
...stage!" cried Shakespeare, but he could only dream and meanwhile curse the "unworthy scaffold" he must needs make do with. The stage, when Romeo and Juliet was first presented, was little more than a gangway shunted shoulder-high through a roaring mob.*Down these bare boards an actor strode, and with a wave of the arm required his hearers to believe they were "in fair Verona, where we lay our scene." In later centuries, notably toward the end of the 19th, productions of Shakespeare became almost as richly furnished as they were badly played; but not until some 335 years...
Although Dudley Hall provides the commuter a convenient meeting place for lunch and talk, it offers little in the way of the attractive facilities of the Houses. Recently a vigorous-looking man strode into the Dudley Common Room and asked the first student he met, "What do you think of this place?" The man was William L. White, a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, and an Honorary Associate of Dudley. His interest has been one of the few indications that the University has any active concern over the commuter's difficulties...