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When young (22) Pancho Gonzales turned pro last fall, U.S. amateur tennis lost the top man on its totem pole-and the only player in sight who might have sat it out for a while. At Forest Hills last week, the low men were scrambling for Pancho's old spot. The result was a good deal like the confusion in the heavyweight division when Joe Louis hung up his gloves...
Mulloy was wrong. In a semifinal match this week, he lost to the cool retrieving of Herbie Flam in a long, five-set match. Art Larsen subdued Dick Savitt to become the other finalist. One of the two would climb to the top of the totem pole this week, but the pole seemed stumpier than usual...
...meet the fanciful ideas of a Texan who wanted to fly a group of friends to Vancouver for a weekend, Bob Prescott painted one of his planes like a totem pole, wore a cowpuncher's outfit while piloting...
...most abstract paintings in the series were not a bit "modern." Peter Nielson, who painted Alaska, is a Frog Indian whose work owes everything to his totem-pole-making ancestors. Painter Nielson was pleased to get the job, but explained that as the fish were running it would take him a couple of months to get around to it. In due time he shipped a six-foot-square totemic design, painted on cedar boards, airmail to Chicago. Like Nielson, Hopi Indian Fred Kabotie, who painted Arizona, refused to submit preliminary sketches. He hastened into the desert, shot a mule deer...
...Vice. Totem poles, characteristic of British Columbia, are also made in the East Indies. A common pattern in both regions has human figures alternating on the pole with figures of fish or birds. Dr. Ekholm showed the Americanists carved sticks (miniature totem poles) from both Sumatra and British Columbia and challenged them to tell him which came from where. They confessed that the designs were so similar that they could only guess whether Asiatic or American Indians made them...