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...When the basketball scandals broke like carbuncles on the red neck of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, Jan. 29 et seq.), Illinois' Bradley University was as horrified as any of them. Last spring Bradley staged its own private invitation tournament, to make sure that its team, known as the "Pride of Peoria," kept uncontaminated. Last week Peoria's pride came a cropper. Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan announced that eight Bradley players, including All-America Gene Melchiorre, had been hand in glove with gamblers. Also involved: four members of Toledo University's team...
World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson had fought six fights in six weeks, gadded about Paris and made innumerable personal appearances (TIME, June ii et seq.). His wife Edna Mae was uneasy about him: "Sugar's tired. He's overtrained and overfought." Meanwhile, Britain's Middleweight Champion Randy Turpin, on the eve of the fight of his life, made a soberly restrained prediction: "I think I have a chance." Nevertheless, the odds were 3-1-on Sugar Ray when the men climbed into the ring at Earl's Court in London last week...
...would suggest that in order to provide this we kick the Dixiecrats in the Republican Party like Mundt, Bricker, McCarthy, Reece, et al out of the party and nominate a liberal for President ... I think that either Earl Warren or Wayne Morse would fit the bill. DAVID CARGO Ann Arbor, Mich...
...five weeks, a troupe of Russia's top artists have been whirling about Italy, concertizing and dancing to the uproarious approval of music fans (TIME, June 25 et seq.). Last week the Italian government reminded the Russian embassy that the tourists' one-month visas had expired...
...muster roll of World War II movies, but it turns out to be one of the most absorbing of the lot. The picture turns the trick in spite of a battleworn plot about a tough-minded commander (Richard Widmark), whose overzealous sense of duty alienates his men (Dana Andrews et al.) until the crisis of battle finally brings them together. Its secret weapon: the work of the Navy's underwater demolition teams, the swimmers who spearheaded U.S. amphibious invasions from Sicily to Okinawa...