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...hope at all: at 38, Gardnar Mulloy was drained by the years, and he was to face one of the finest players ever to hop a net. Yet the crowd cheered as Mulloy walked out to the famed center court at Forest Hills, lean, fit-looking and brisk, but stiff in his stride, and greying at the temples. It was his 18th year in the singles matches, and Mulloy, decorated veteran of World War 11 (lieutenant commander skipper of an LST) and four-time U.S. doubles champion (with Bill Talbert), was making his first appearance in the finals...
...look is merely superficial. Inside the jazzy jackets, the little books toe a firm fundamentalist line going straight back to fiery Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who founded the press in 1894. In The Prodigal, copyright 1898, Moody himself delivers a brisk little homily on the perils of cigars, whisky and wild women. More up-to-the-minute, A Visit to Mars is mildly in the modern science-fiction vein. The Martians, it turns out, are not only supermen but super-Christians, who have attained a state of grace. The only graceless, earthian thing about them is their dialogue. Sample...
...unassuming, generally effective little picture, The Ring has some brisk fight scenes. It also makes a few telling points about intolerance with some blunt sequences, shot in & around actual Los Angeles locations, of discrimination against Mexican-Americans in drive-in restaurants, bars and skating rinks. Lalo Rios as the boy, Rita Moreno as his girl and Gerald Mohr as a prizefight manager play their parts naturally. The Ring is no main bout, but it is a thoroughly satisfactory preliminary...
This week Dr. Fisher is in the U.S., passing a vacation as guest of the Right Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. Those who have met him find him a relaxed, modest man, the proud father of six sons, the possessor of a brisk British wit,† and the personification of his church...
...Aleutian Islands, in the dangerous summer of 1943, the radar watch of a Navy task force picked up the blips of enemy warships. In a brisk, 45-minute fire fight, the battle fleet expended more than 1,000 rounds of 14-in. and 8-in. ammunition. From their battle stations, lookouts reported the flares and star shells of the otherwise invisible Japanese. Radar operators called in corrections for what seemed to be near misses. But there was no return fire. Eventually, a bewildered Navy decided that it had been slugging it out with phantoms...