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Sweet-Scented Clubs. As for the fight itself, "Doc" Kearns and Co. need not have worried about the talents of such an old (42) trouper as Archie Moore. With a skill perfected in tank-town arenas and sweet-scented boxing clubs all over the world, Archie wasted no time half-blinding the Saskatoon Statue with slicing jabs to the eye. Then, the fight well in hand, he carried his man for nine rounds, gave the crowd its $148,500 worth before the referee mercifully stopped the slaughter. "I could have finished him in the eighth," Archie confided later...
Backstage, all was not serene with Old Trouper Mae West and her touring menage of Bikini-diapered musclemen (TIME, May 21). One of Mae's big hunks, Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 32, a likable sort of Hungarian Li'l Abner, renowned in physical-culture circles as Mr. Universe (6 ft. 2 in., 220 Ibs.), had crashingly fallen for Broadway's Daisy-Mae-Westish Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield, 23, in full view of the tabloids. A stern theatrical disciplinarian, Sexagenarian West, punishing Mickey for openly airing his romance, demoted him in her show by putting...
...worst I have seen.' . . . I never stated publicly, to my sober recollection, that she had ruined my play. What I said was phrased in barroom lingo. I was talking to myself, not to all who would listen, though certainly into my cups." According to Critic Williams, Grand Trouper Bankhead magnificently steered Streetcar back on the track after that. "To me she brought to mind the return of some great matador to the bull ring in Madrid, for the first time after having been almost fatally gored, and facing his most dangerous bull with his finest valor . . . When the play...
...Olympic performance. As she whirled and leaped to the beat of Adolphe Adam's If I Were King, her near-flawless execution brought the chilled crowd to its feet. Even one of the judges broke into spontaneous applause. When the scores were announced, the 16-year-old trouper, after a long year of competition as an also-ran, was the world champion. "Mother," she cried...
...gets striking performances from his actors. Jack Palance, a gifted portrayer of brute instinct, is miscast as a man whose problem is the loss of his instincts, but his intensity and sincerity propel the action vigorously even where they confuse its motives. Ida Lupino, as always, is a capable trouper; Shelley Winters makes an amusing roundheel: and Jean Hagen gives her some tart competition. Perhaps best of all is Wendell Corey as the sort of operator who has long since opened his veins, let out all the poetry and filled up with Prestone for life's long winter...