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...plays tennis the way Joe Louis stalks an opponent in the ring. He is always boring in, always making the other fellow feel he is doomed unless he does something tremendous. Both his backhand and forehand carry deceptive depth and pace. All who play against him have the same complaint: "He makes you feel like you are backing up and backing up until you can't back up any farther." And at that point, Jake has most likely worked his way forward to the net for the clincher. Says he: "After a forcing shot, the odds of clinching...
...formal complaint was aimed at the 26 major steel companies and the American Iron & Steel Institute, gave them until Sept. 19 to answer. In prospect was a "cease-and-desist" order by FTC to break up the industry's "basing point" system...
Hollywood's Temptation. A favorite complaint of the writers is that Hollywood's big money is the ruination of many a promising writer. Warren, whose All the King's Men was passed up by the movies until it got the Pulitzer award (and now will fetch Warren up to $200,000), thought that "the odds are probably against a writer doing good work in Hollywood." Added Marquand, a graduate of the slicks: "The slicks and Hollywood and radio-though not so much radio-do their best to stifle ideas and originality. They're very dangerous...
William J. Bingham announced last Monday that a new policy of application and allocation which should remove many of the causes for complaint will be inaugurated next fall. Under the new system, similar to that successfully used by several other colleges, students will purchase application blanks rather than tickets, and they will have a better opportunity to make use of turn-ins. The new plan will be more flexible than the old, and will guarantee a higher percentage of satisfied customers. But it will not work by itself...
...comic strips. Evans was one of the Newspaper Guildsmen whose strike against J. David Stern's Philadelphia Record ended in the Record's collapse (TIME, Feb. 10). He was the only Negro reporter on the staff. As he walked the picket line, he thought hard about a complaint frequently heard among his people: Negroes are usually ridiculed and their way of life distorted in comics drawn by white...