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...young Negro's rebellion against segregation continued to spread last week, touching off a great swell of mass arrests in the South. Items...
...America Jerry West to one field goal as they won, 65 to 45. The team's top star is cloud-capped (6 ft. 10 in., 210 Ibs.) Darrall Imhoff, who averages only 11.8 points per game. Says Imhoff: "Sure, I like making buckets, but I really swell up when I block a shot. If you bat the ball down a guy's throat on his favorite shot, he's going to choke up a little. And he just might not try that shot again...
...adversary, Eisenhower flew to Europe in late August, there to consult and coordinate plans with U.S. allies. In Germany, the land overrun by his Allied armies, in England, the country from which he had launched his vast command upon Europe, and in Paris, the city he had liberated, the swell of popular emotion brought a mist to an old soldier's eyes. The tribute was more than personal. When Ike left Europe, he knew that it was in his capacity as the President of the U.S., in his symbolizing of U.S. prestige and principles, that he bore with...
...once caused the entire Albuquerque Rotary Club to walk out on him; in Manhattan. Fiske made pretentious women his special target (Queen Anne, Miss Elaine of Boston, Gretchen Goudonofi, Malaga the Grape Girl), but he was also unkind to Marc Antony ("Cleopatra thought this was so swell / She had the Fig Newtons passed around, / Which only gave Marc Antony a case of hiccups / She misconstrued this for emotion...
...stage difficulties involved are immediate and persistent. The adapters really have little to dramatize beyond a genially hard-hitting personality that best conveys itself in the first person, and a pungent egalitarian philosophy of life that seems blatantly pious when acted out. Adapters Lawrence and Lee must, in fact, swell out into two hours of theater what is not only ill suited to the theater, but what even in book form comes off best in ten-minute draughts...