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Opposing coaches swear that he has eyes in the back of his head. As he dodges around back there, he has an uncanny "feel" for tacklers closing in on him from behind, and the glint of sunlight off a gold helmet among a swarm of defenders downfield is all he needs to register the position of his receiver. Says Coach Hardin: "Some people will be in a room a thousand times, and when they're out of it, they can't tell how many lights it has, what shape the furniture is, or anything. Staubach could. He sees...
Kelen's eye was so sure that he often picked men out of a crowd before history did. In 1921, from a swarm of boisterous brown-shirted men in Munich, he sketched one whose face was all fascinating conflict. "Contrasts of weakness and strength were dramatic," Kelen wrote. "The fragile centerpiece of the upper jaw was flanked by massive cheekbones and a baboon brow ridge, and was married to a sledgehammer lower jaw . . . timidity grafted to courage, sensitiveness to violence, and an abstract mind to muddleheaded mysticism." Kelen's subject: Rudolf Hess. Other notable Kelen portraits: » John...
After a pause for the midsummer dog days, the trips to Europe or the work at summer school, the debutantes are beginning to swarm again along the Eastern Seaboard. Last week, for instance, Banker Stephen C. Clark brought out his daughter Susan in Cooperstown, N.Y.; this week Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, daughter of Philadelphia's Francis Bring Wetherill and Mrs. Donald Stewart Leas Jr., will have a huge party in Southampton; Cynthia Phipps, daughter of horsy Investment Banker Ogden Phipps, will entertain 1,000 guests with Lester Lanin's music on Long Island Sept. 9; and two days before...
There seems to be something about soccer that stirs fans to violence. Bloody riots break out every now and then at soccer games in Latin countries, and I.S.L. fans display some of that same ferocity. At one game this year a swarm of fans outraged by a referee's decision rushed onto the field, bloodied the referee's nose and ripped the shirt off his back. "With soccer fans it's more than a game," said a shaken I.S.L. official...
Once the happy fisherman is ashore and his catch is measured and weighed, other kinds of fish swarm around him. He pays the captain ($110), throws in a tip ($10), poses for a photograph with his marlin ($2), gets loaded up with certificates and buttons attesting his fortitude and skill (free). Then, while he is weak with pride, a stranger comes up to him, bubbles congratulations and whips out an order pad. "Guess you'll be wanting it mounted," he says...