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...like a kid on his way to the dentist, Australian Miler Mervyn Lincoln came on fast in the final lap at the Los Angeles Coliseum and almost gave the crowd the four-minute mile it had come to see. He finished in 4:01, ahead of Britain's Brian Hewson (4:01.4), Hungarian Expatriate Laszlo Tabori (4:01.6) and Britain's Derek Ibbotson (4:02). All four had already broken four minutes elsewhere; Ibbotson had come to town boldly predicting he would win in 3:56. "Our appearance," said the unabashed fourth-place Briton, "ought...
Such film gossipists as Hedda Hopper find themselves devoting increasing space to TV personalities. When the famed old Cocoanut Grove reopened a fortnight ago, the society columns listed as guests George Gobel, Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian, Art Linkletter, even Milton Berle. Hollywood's own Bastille Day, the annual Oscar awards, is geared completely as a sponsored TV show; except for those in the running for an Oscar, few movie people bother to attend...
...FEAST OF LUPERCAL (246 pp.)-Brian Moore-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...Diarmuid Devine, B.A., English master at Saint Michan's and Cuff (socalled for his swift classroom rabbit punch) is his seedy senior colleague, Timothy Stanislaus Heron, M.A., whose raveled gown flaps behind him "like broken black wings." According to Novelist Brian Moore, many moral Waterloos are lost on the playing fields of Saint Michan's. It is not a progressive school; in fact it is the most distressful college that has been seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters...
Douglas Horton, professor of Theology and Dean of the Divinity School, will become the John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity. This chair was created in honor of the Washington lawyer who led the recent drive to strengthen the Divinity School...