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Breakfast in Bed. From his earliest years, living near a record shop that blared Italian opera into the street all day, Freddy was an opera fan and a tireless listener to his father's own large collection of records. At seven, he once played a Caruso record 27 times at a single sitting. But it was not until he was about 19, after dabbling unsuccessfully with piano lessons, that he began to take his own voice seriously. One summer day, listening to records in his room, he burst into a duet with Caruso. His father was a thrilled eavesdropper...
...have Savitt on the run (five set points) in the first set, finally dropped it 7-5, then stuck grimly to the base line while Savitt pounded out the next two sets, 6-3, 6-2. Young (22) Herb Flam, the U.S.'s second-ranking player and a tireless retriever, beat the Japanese champion, Jiro Kumamaru, at his own game, the base-line duel. Flam, too, had a tough time in the first set, but won it 7-5. Playing more aggressively against his 29-year-old rival, Flam whipped through the second at love, won the third, mainly...
Visiting: Kansas-born Dr. John A. (for Adams) Kingsbury, 74, onetime Manhattan social worker and tireless fellow traveler, who arrived in Russia last week for his second call in eight months. (On his first he headed a gaggle of U.S. pinko "peace partisans.") As chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, ticketed as subversive by the Attorney General, Dr. Kingsbury was huzzaed at Moscow's Leningrad Station by bureaucrats of the Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace and the Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women. Purpose of his visit, explained Dr. Kingsbury: to study the Soviet...
Last week, as they have for years, high-powered Hollywood lobbyists were subtly slipping their wares into the screen's magic showcase. With tireless insistency they pushed plugs for automobiles, refrigerators, railroads, soft drinks, rifles, liquor, diamonds, Venetian blinds, cigars...
...organization, as Sherrill and its veteran boss, ubiquitous, tireless General Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert, are well aware, is not only bigger than ever before, but has a bigger opportunity, and a greater challenge. When the ecumenical movement was getting started, Christianity was suffering from doldrums as well as division. The scientific and secular optimism of the 19th Century seemed to have superseded the faith of our fathers; the future belonged to man, and man was the measure of it. Now things are different...