Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife, Eric Portman as Dr. Manette and Agnes Moorehead, who played Madame Defarge as if the revolution depended on it. But Tale was the finest hour-and-a-half for Director Robert Mulligan, 33, especially in his mob scenes, and Scottish Actor James Donald, 40, who portrayed the cynical Sydney Carton with insight and intensity. A veteran of the Old Vic stage and British movies (White Corridors, Brandy for the Parson), Donald was believable to the story's very last coincidence. As he moved toward the guillotine, he gave a freshly eloquent reading of a famed old line...
...Sydney, young (15) John Konrads, who breaks swimming records almost every time he gets wet (TIME, March 3), broke his own 220-yd. and 200-meter world records with a new time...
...crew-cut teetotaler who grew up on the outskirts of Sydney, Talbot was a fair swimmer himself by the time he went to teachers college at Wagga Wagga. Now Talbot, who used to double as a grammar-school teacher, teaches swimming exclusively ($12 for ten 15-minute lessons with a beginner, $24 for six months with a competitor). His swimmers are his first concern. Says he, "You've got to really get close to them. You must be an adviser, friend and wailing wall." Coach Talbot goes to the lengths of prescribing intricate diets (e.g., wheat germ, lamb...
...Sydney, Australia, trim Wilma Kennedy, 23, was fined $67 after she grabbed a husky police sergeant by the arm, flipped him to the ground, dislocated his shoulder, put him off duty for seven weeks...
...Breaking the 880-yd. and 800-meter freestyle swimming records (TIME, Jan. 20) was so easy for Australia's Latvian Immigrant Jon Konrads, 15, that the tireless teen-ager barely paused for breath before splashing back into North Sydney's Olympic pool and churning past four more marks. He finished the 440-yd. grind in 4:25.9, which was a 400-meter record as well. He sprinted 220 yds. in 2:04.8, setting a new 200-meter mark in the process...