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...Vieira da Silva (Invisible Pedestrian) is a rising star of the geometrical school. She finds inspiration in the Moorish tiles of her native Portugal, which combine "space, color and musical mathematics...
...Hamilton Richardson, 17, a second-round upset over Wimbledon's Defending Champion Budge Patty; in London. In his fourth round, the U.S. junior champion got a case of "center court shakes," lost to Brazilian Champion Armando Vieira. The semifinalists: The U.S.'s Dick Savitt (who defeated the U.S.'s Art Larsen in the quarterfinals) v. the U.S.'s Herb Flam (who defeated Australia's top-seeded Frank Sedgman); Australia's Ken McGregor (who defeated Sweden's Lennart Bergelin) v. South Africa's Eric Sturgess (who defeated Vieira...
TIME'S Press section, Aug. 7, reporting on the tall story told by Corporal Albert Vieira, who broke his ankle playing ball in Japan and passed himself off as war wounded when he arrived in California in a hospital plane, correctly says that Vieira's phony story was spread across Page One of the San Francisco News, San Francisco Call-Bulletin and the Oakland Tribune...
...adds: "In the rush for deadlines, only one reporter, LIFE'S Milton Orshefsky, checked Vieira's medical and service records . . ." and found the correct version of the story of Vieira's injury...
...rush for deadlines, only LIFE'S Milton Orshefsky was not on hand when Vieira arrived with the wounded from Korea. Only Orshefsky was not present at the Air-Force-conducted press conference. And only Orshefsky, arriving well after the newspapermen had left, was so late that the Air Force had had time to check Vieira's record and inform him that Vieira had strayed slightly from the facts...