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Died. Jess Willard, 86, ex-heavyweight champ and boxing's "Great White Hope" in the early 1900s (see SPORT...
...ends The Great White Hope, the current Broadway play based on the career of Boxer Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion (1908-15). Typically, Jess Willard, the only one of several "white hopes" who was able to take the title from Johnson, is portrayed in the play as a grotesque symbol of all that was sick with the times...
...nonetheless under unremitting and microscopic scrutiny. Once, a President could get away from it all with relative ease - as U. S. Grant did with his regular evening strolls down Pennsylvania Avenue to smoke a cigar, undisturbed, in a corner of the lobby of the now-doomed Willard Hotel; or, as Teddy Roosevelt did, with the "lonely walks" that he took at every opportunity. To day the ever-present eyes of newsmen and the TV camera - not to mention the vastly increased authority of the presidency in world affairs-make such forays virtually impossible beyond the confines of a private estate...
Needless of say, all is not happiness. There is Willard K. Knatpole, who tries to uncover Ustinov's illegal schemes and steal his woman at the same time. Bob Newhart plays the part, and, believe it or not, he's funny. Oozing nauseating lechery out of his beady eyes, he makes his rotten ugliness a splendid contrast with Ustinov's lovable ugliness...
...York that is expected to be built in a Brooklyn renewal area. Secretary of State Dean Rusk may go back to a foundation job (he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation when J.F.K. named him Secretary of State). The future is uncertain for others, like Labor's Willard Wirtz and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...