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...week TIME is swinging at a fat pitch letter-high. As the season starts, there is no question that sport's big story is a front-office operator, who changed baseball into the national pastime and brought the major leagues to the West Coast, See SPORT, Walter in Wonderland...
Even in that warm wonderland of swamis, fly-by-night faith healers and hard-eyed Hollywood flesh peddlers, O'Malley was obviously something special. Half Irish and all gall, he is a sucker for other people's promises and a happily shameless manipulator of his own. His gravel-voiced oratory beats at the unwary with the brass of a top sergeant and the blarney of a sideshow barker. To doubt his most outrageous argument is to deal him a mortal affront. But doubters there are. For Walter is a complicated soul. When there are two ways...
...Johnny was dead. Lana was still alive; a judge would decide soon whether she would lose custody of her only child. Julia Jean Turner had come a long way in the make-believe wonderland of Hollywood-where moviemen are confident that the Sweater Girl is now bigger box office than ever...
Life with Mother. Leonhard is the sort of stylist who would rewrite Alice in Wonderland as The Bourgeois Illusions and Degenerate Fantasies of a British Middle-Class Female Child. He was 13 when his mother, a German Communist and a refugee from Hitler in Sweden, took him to the Soviet Union. There were thousands like them in Moscow. It was 1935, the eve of the Great Purge. Little Wolfgang was lodged, with other foreign youngsters, in Children's Home No. 6, then briefly among Russians in a grim Dotheboys Hall called the Spartak Children's Home. At school...
CAMBODIA. Apart from promising Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutralist wonderland a 500-bed hospital. Russia has left aid to Cambodia largely in the hands of Communist China, which has adopted its own version of U.S. counterpart aid schemes. Periodically Peking sends Cambodia free shipments of cotton textiles, galvanized iron, raw silk, cement and other Chinese products. These goods-last August shipments were valued at $5,000,000-are sold on the local market by the Cambodian government, and the proceeds are spent on dams, irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber...