Word: week
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public-Private Image. If Eartha Kitt appears before her audiences as the feline temptress and Lena Home as the sophisticated lady with a past, Diahann is the ingenue of the trade-sweet but sexy, and eager to learn. When the soft blue lights came up on her last week, she tilted back the high-cheekboned, full-lipped face on the swan neck and gave out with a brassily exuberant Everything's Coming Up Roses. From that the voice could sink to a smoky purr in a slow Too Much in Love or take on a rasping burr...
...season long, scouts from the National Football League closely study college games, and run down tipsters' estimates in the search for the big boys who can play the man's game of the pros. Meeting in Philadelphia this week to draft college stars for next year's rosters, the pro teams were ruled by their own particular manpower requirements, ended up picking some players far down on everyone's lists. But, with surprising unanimity, the pro scouts this year agree on the nation's finest college players. The pros' All-America...
...week's end Staudacher, 47, had his badly damaged, 31½-ft. boat up for repairs at his woodworking shop back in Kawkawlin. Mich., where he earns a good living by turning out church furniture, enjoys a reputation as the nation's finest builder of wooden-hulled, unlimited hydroplanes. As soon as repairs are complete and the water is right (probably next spring), Staudacher will give Tempo-Alcoa an all-out try at Campbell's record, feels sure she will break it. Says he wryly: "She runs much better on water than she does on land...
...insulated their feet against the 28° temperature of South Bend with layers of sweat socks and cellophane, but nothing helped against a Notre Dame team that has abruptly become a major power since Quarterback George Izo returned to full health. Capping its 20-19 defeat of Iowa the week before, Notre Dame disposed of nationally ranked U.S.C. 16-6 to end a dismal season (5-5) with a flourish...
...four lengths, but Sword Dancer, the little chestnut three-year-old owned by Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, came surging back to twice beat the five-year-old Round Table, racing's biggest money winner, leads the nation's thoroughbreds in earnings this season with $537,004, last week was named horse of the year by the railbird's Bible, the Morning Telegraph...