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...course at Pebble Beach, Calif., was drenched in rain, shrouded by fog and whipped by wind during the day's play. But blond, burly Jack Nicklaus, 21, a student at Ohio State University, proved again that he was the world's finest amateur golfer by routing 22-year-old Dudley Wysong of McKinney, Texas, 8 and 6, to regain the U.S. National Amateur Golf Championship...
...professors characterized the 22-year-old Makinen as "the most serious and hard-working young American we have seen in Berlin in a long time." Makinen spoke fluent German and Finnish (which he had learned from his family), took private lessons in Russian. Short, slight, with corn-silk blond hair cropped close, he was not a big hit with the girls at the university because, as one put it: "You always got the feeling that he would rather be alone...
...Tall and blond, he did not look much like Cary Grant but as a thief, his record was more impressive; police claimed Sacha was the leader of a gang of jewel thieves that have lifted several million from the mansions and hotels of France, Belgium and Germany since 1953. Said an exuberant Riviera police chief, hoping some of the month's robberies could be traced to le beau Sacha: "We have trapped a very big bird, undoubtedly the most important in the last 30 years...
Like Gagarin. Titov was a copybook example of the new Soviet man. Short (5 ft. 6 in.), ruggedly handsome with wavy blond hair, the cosmonaut had always been better at athletics than books, was an expert gymnast and bicycle racer before he elected to go to flying school and the Red air force rather than college. And like Gagarin, Titov was treated to a hero's welcome when he finally returned from his high-arcing trip. Khrushchev led Titov's pretty young wife Tamara to the Moscow airport to greet the newest Soviet spaceman and smother him with...
JIMMY RIDDLE, by Ian Brook (317 pp.; Putnam; $3.95) has as its hero the Walter Mitty ideal of every British public-school boy who grew up to be a frustrated colonial civil servant. Blond, bronzed and rugged, Jimmy Riddle is district commissioner of darkest Alabasa province in an unnamed British Colony in West Africa, a living legend to his fellow officers, and the sex-dreamboat of their wistful wives. In the end, Riddle turns against his own bumbling government, gets together with the Balabasa of Alabasa, the paramount chief and head of the Python Cult, and declares Alabasa an independent...