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Professional basketball this season is dominated by a rookie: Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, center for the Philadelphia Warriors-the agile Negro giant (7 ft. 2 in., 250 lbs.) who can nearly reach the basket by raising an arm. Last week Chamberlain was well on his way to smashing every record on the books. Even with 14 games still to play, he had scored more points and snared more rebounds than any other player ever had in a full season. Against the Detroit Pistons he scored 41 points to raise his total to 2,134, break by 29 the season record...
...shot. But, in midair, he flipped a pass behind his back to Teammate Tom Gola, who was so wide open that he merely stuffed down the basket. Minutes later, Rodgers scooped up a free ball with the smooth motion of a shortstop, fed a precise pass to the pivoting Wilt Chamberlain for another easy basket. Nursing an injured ankle, Rodgers played only 20 min., but scored 11 points, set up four baskets for teammates. Final score: Warriors 114, Knicks...
...Rodgers regularly holds lonely practice sessions to perfect his passing techniques. "I'll put a chair in a certain place," he says, "and pretend it's Bill Russell of the Celtics, and that I'll have to fake him a little to get the ball to Wilt. I dribble at the chair like it's Russell. I can practically see him faked out, and I aim high for Wilt...
What Thou Wilt. Apart from Mamma's quirks, Havelock's boyhood in Surrey was uneventful to the point of torpor. The boy was a bookworm; the man would be a cultural boa constrictor gorged with print. He had four sisters and an absentee sea-captain father; Ellis would be woman-handled most of his life. Papa interrupted his son's reading twice, once to take him around the world at the age of seven, and a second time at 16, to deposit him in Australia for a four-year stretch of school-mastering in the rough...
...sexpot. Under the doctrine of "service," Hinton preached polygamy and practiced promiscuity among lonely women and errant wives. High-minded Havelock saw in this only a band of free spirits snapping the moral chains of Victorian bondage. He adopted the Hinton motto, Fay ce que vouldras (Do What Thou Wilt) as his own. As one of Ellis' women friends subsequently pointed out, it was a perfectly innocuous creed for him, since Havelock was tempted to do so little. The women who entered Ellis' life usually came for solace; they were customarily fleeing from men, or from themselves...