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...Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, Good-Will Ambassador Sugar Ray Robinson lost his way in Paris traffic, kept the crowd (including at least one duchess and the wives of three cabinet ministers) waiting 30 minutes before he arrived in his fuchsia Cadillac convertible. All was forgiven when the middleweight champ from Harlem made a little speech in French, then topped it off with: "Hey, now I get to kiss Missus President!" With a gay blush, France's First Lady, Mme. Vincent Auriol, stood up for a kiss on each cheek...
...first week on the job, Critic Smith took after the star of a Covent Garden performance of Madame Butterfly. For him, Soprano (and onetime Australian golf champ) Joan Hammond was "not equipped by physique or temperament to portray the fragile, trusting heroine. There was about her a heartiness . . . suggesting she had left her riding crop just outside the door." With that, the storm broke...
...hero, Mico Mor, is a broth of a fisherman's boy in County Galway - no champ for brains but strong on earthy virtue. In one of his first scenes, young Mico rashly throws a tin cup at a flock of geese; they charge down the beach and drive him near to drowning in the sea. But like the youngest prince in the old stories, Mico comes through where many a more calculating fellow fails...
...season's record, defeated Big Ten champ Bill Buckingham of Michigan State and Frank Altman of Iowa Teachers in the preliminaries. He beat Al Lopez of Illinois in the quarter-finals and Al Vega of Purdue in the semi-finals
Nowadays more than 100,000 copies of test booklets go to more than 2,000 schools and colleges three times a year. Many instructors award prizes provided by TIME to the students who score, highest in each class. Some winners over the years: Gene Lauder Tunney (the ex-champ's son), John de Cuevas (John D. Rockefeller's great-grandson), Margaret Truman (see cover...