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...looking man named Jack Lewis rented a shabby basement apartment on Manhattan's West 74th St. He and his wife were a quiet couple who had few callers and got no mail except for one lone postcard. It was from "Joe" in Haiti and said only, "Having a swell time." Lewis told the landlord that he was a statistical engineer, that he was gathering material for a book on mathematics. Henna-haired Mrs. Lewis, 42, never spoke to the neighbors...
...Michael. His Henry Aldrich-type voice simmers down to a more mature rasp before it gets annoying, and by the time the show is over he is stealing an occasional scene from his elders. Given his fantastic American-Canadian-English lines that come up with such expressions as "jolly swell," Van Patten doesn't waste a syllable and is master of the double take. He has the difficult duty of acting a ludicrous person with a concrete and serious problem and he performs it without slipping into schizophrenia...
...newly arrived white sea monkeys conquered Java, and before they were done, three-fourths of the globe. Then the world moved on in its circle. The long ground swell of anti-Westernism rose to a tidal wave after Pearl Harbor. It ebbed with Japan's defeat, but nowhere in Asia did the white man regain his prewar position...
...basketball. When Joe Lapchick played with the Celtics, the wonder pro team of the '205, scores were sometimes as low as 17-15. He remembers when "we played on slippery floors with basketballs black as charcoal from constant usage. As the season wore on, the ball would swell as seams loosened and baskets became harder to shoot...
...more than a gesture of racial tolerance. The simple fact was that Levi Jackson, son of a Negro chef in a Yale fraternity house, was the Big Blue's best player and one of the best liked. The vote was unanimous. Said Levi: "It's swell...