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...tested for the title role in Marjorie Morningstar. As the season's best-plugged heroine hunt progressed, Hollywood jungle drums boomed Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker, Jean Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor and the Old Vic's Claire Bloom for the part. A likely long shot, according to one tub thumper, for Herman Wouk's bagel-belt heroine: Steve Allen's sometime girl singer, Irish-descended Erin O'Brien...
...pair of buffoons who would have trouble finding the corner mailbox. History records that Sacajawea, the expedition's Indian interpreter, was one of the wives of a French guide and the mother of his son. Hollywood knows better: actually, she was unmarried Donna Reed, a high-fashion pulse-thumper turned out in beautifully tailored buckskins. Heston finds her a tasty dish even if her name is too much for him to master: he calls her "Janie" for short and proposes marriage. For all its duels with knives, wild Indian attacks and synthetic quarrels between the leaders. Horizons ends...
BAKER FIELD, N.Y.--Yale beat Columbia here Saturday but didn't fulfill the fond hopes of its ace tub-thumper or the expectations of the reliable Jersey house, which had made the New Have crowd a two-touchdown favorite...
...precocious Southern Ibos and Yorubas, most of whom are religiously poised between paganism and Christianity. The Ibos, about 3,000,000 strong, live east of the steamy valley of the Niger, Africa's third-largest river. Their leader, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, 48, is a U.S.-educated tub-thumper whose chain of bush newspapers helped him launch Nigeria's most powerful political party. In the Southwest, an equal number of Yorubas make their headquarters in Ibadan (pop. 400,000), Africa's largest native city, and support Zik's chief rival, 43-year-old Barrister Obafemi Awolowo...
...Sphinx & Thumper. Eisenhower has his own operational code for bridge: "Play every hand," he says, "as part of a lifetime bridge career. The result is more slams, less sets, and a fine average record." He will take reasonable chances based on a knowledge of mathematical odds; when alternative lines of play are before him, he chooses the one with the more favorable odds (for an example, see box on a recent Eisenhower slam bid). His defensive play can be rough and bold. Recently he went all the way to six hearts to prevent his opponents from taking...