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French tennis fans have a word for an old hand who plays a steady, smooth-stroking, unspectacular game: "crocodile." In the recent French championships the fans spotted two of the species:* Lefthander Jaroslav Drobny, 32, a self-exiled Czech now playing for Egypt, and South Africa's Eric Sturgess, 29, whose smooth ground strokes are reminiscent of the days when tennis was played, and won, from the base line. By the semifinals of the French tournament not one of the slam-bang U.S. players was left, and the pride of the victorious Australian Davis Cup team, Frank Sedgman...
...chief of Special Projects of United Nations Radio, Corwin advised his readers that radiomen want "the safe, routine, unspectacular, competent, journeyman script . . . with maybe a fresh twist no bigger than what you give to a lemon peel in a Martini." In TV, the writer is even less important: he "must step aside for Gorgeous George, Garrulous Godfrey . . . westerns, British films from the bottom of the vault, midget autos, roller-skating derbies . . . kitchen and fashion demonstrators, giveaways, and the upper slopes of Faye Emerson." But if he is willing "to curb his imagination" and to look on the medium...
...head of an otherwise all-British cast, Actress Dunne shares honors with her make-up man for a competent, unspectacular performance. As Disraeli, Alec (Kind Hearts and Coronets) Guinness gives a superb reading of a long, eloquent speech in the House of Commons, turning the mudlark's adventure into an affair of state. Most of the time, however, Guinness plays with a mincing air that suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven...
Filling. Since those days, except for one brief (1939-40) episode when he had his own Ragtime Band and made some famous collector's items for the Bluebird label, Muggsy has been passing most of his working time as an unspectacular, if solid, fixture in Chicago and Manhattan jazz joints. Now, at 44, and playing as well as ever, he had suddenly become one of the rages of the West Coast. With his new handpicked, six-piece combo, Muggsy filled San Francisco's Hangover Club last month, is doing equally well at Tiffany...
...special occasions, the Colleges make a big bid for gentility. A week ago, Calhoun replaced its tin trays with crockery, dressed its cafeteria staff in elegant black uniforms, and spectacularly dished out unspectacular food while a string trio played dinner music. A lady dispensing coffee obsessed with her duty to maintain a polished atmosphere, apologized for serving coffee cups on plates rather than saucers to students who usually balanced their coffee on trays. Dress for meals at Yale is not so consistently formal as it is in the Houses. Ties and coats are required for the main meal...