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Santiago was different. He was as fragile as Tovar, but the confidence, if there was any, had been diffused in his skinny frame. One was afraid that he would trip on the pitching rubber, throw his first pitch into the stands, collapse in Puerto Rican tears. And one wanted the Press to leave him alone...
...there was no consistency of image because in and out of the hostile big men cavorted the small Negroes--Versailles, Tovar and Carew--who formed the infield. Throwing balls behind their backs, striking poses for their own amusement, they seemed confident but fragile. Their light-heartedness was an affront to the solemnity of the occasion, and one suspected that the confidence might split under pressure, that the fragility might lead to disaster...
...liked them, especially Tovar, who scurried about in one place, tagging photographers and newsmen each time he caught a ball. One hoped that the Press would take the hint. Maggots all, they swarmed around our heroes who were innocent and obliging in their little boy knickers and knee sox. We--the public--had created the Press, or perhaps they created us. In any case, they polluted the field with our worst qualities, our inane curiosity and opportunism. They messed about Yastrzemski as if to pull him down. Solid, neatly divided in two equal parts by his black belt, loosening...
Susan Kohner, 22, was born to the Hollywood purple. Her father, successful Agent Paul Kohner, provided a Bel Air home brightened with a portrait of Susan and her brother painted by a family friend, Diego Rivera, and other baubles to match. From her mother, Mexican Actress Lupita Tovar, she inherited liquid, tip-tilted eyes of striking beauty. As a Chinese girl on TV (Schlitz Playhouse), an Italian girl in To Hell and Back, a neurotic mulatto in Imitation of Life, she began her multicolored career as one of the most versatile young actresses in town. Her latest picture: Walt Disney...
...Peddie School, Hightstown, N. J.; Leslie G. Ritner, Waterloo, Iowa, The Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H.; Charles G. Sellers Jr., Charlotte, N. C., Central High School, Charlotte; Douglas R. Spencer, Eugene, Ore., University High School, Eugene; Hugo G. W. Stockbridge, Forest, Va., Virginia Episcopal School, Lyncliburg; Bernardo H. Tovar, Chicago, III., Portsmouth Priory School, Portsmouth, R. I.; and Charles C. Works Jr., Denver, Colo., Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colo...