Word: victors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with it!" called an irritated fan, but Seixas was through. Deft and deadly, Australia's young (21) Ken Rosewall ran out the match 6-3, 3-6, 6-8, 6-3, 7-5. While Vic ungreixously stopped his ears to drown out the cheers for the victor, Rosewall walked off to wait for his Sydney neighbor and tennis mate to overpower Rhodes Scholar Ham Richardson of Westfield, N.J., 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4, and assure Wimbledon's first all-Australian final ever...
...Merrill; Storyville has uncovered a sweet-husky voice on Introducing Milli Vernon; Liberty's Lonely Girl exploits its success with Julie London, a talented miss who spends most of the record breathing down the listener's neck. As for the majors, they are currently raiding Europe: RCA Victor backs the susurrant, suave and seductive tones of an Italian, Katyna Ranieri, in Love in Three Languages, while Columbia has been pushing Paris' Juliette Greco, whose contralto voice sounds alarmingly like a tenor...
Other noteworthy records: Nine Beethoven Symphonies, played by the NBC Symphony under Toscanini and popularly priced (Victor, 6 LPs); Puccini's Turandot, with Inge Borkh and Mario del Monaco and St. Cecilia Academy musicians under Alberto Erede (London, 3 LPs); Ravel's Complete Piano Works, played by Walter Gieseking (Angel...
...Story (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). The Victor Riesel Story...
Safari (Warwick; Columbia) had the interesting idea of shooting 30,000 feet of film in Kenya and then hiring a writer to think up a plot. What results is an African western with ferocious Mau Mau taking the place of rampaging Sioux and a biff-bang ending that has Victor Mature standing knee-deep in corpses just as the soldiers come charging to the rescue. Along the way are the usual scenes of trumpeting elephants, petulant rhinos, man-eating lions and fiendish crocodiles with an eye for a pretty girl-in this instance, Janet Leigh. In fact, most...