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...summertime delights, pursued in high spirits. There might be a hassle or two over a bum call at first base, but a boy who dropped a pop fly suffered only the personal agony of embarrassment. Now, as highly organized Little League baseball, it is all too often a grim and tidily uniformed surrogate competition for adults, in which the stakes are parental egos and junior's gaffe becomes a family disgrace...
...could believe that Ann-Margret, the Swedish meatball, the female Troy Donahue, the 30-year-old high school cheerleader from Wilmette, Ill., was actually acting. But in Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge (TIME, July 5), playing the billowy milkbed the hero frolics on, she opposed Jack Nicholson's grim portrait of a swordless swordsman with a rich and touching study of what happens to a woman when her man won't let her be one. Her work deserved and got the sort of reviews that could win a girl an Oscar, and her body got a degree...
...threats were received that a man was going to "machine-gun the whole family." Colombo's wife Lucille and sons, Anthony, 26, Joseph Jr., 24, and Vincent, 21, quickly converted a second-floor waiting room into a battle center. Within hours, Roosevelt Hospital took on the look of a grim, almost surrealistic parody of a Godfatheresque scene from Mario Puzo's bestselling novel...
Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., his wife, and Rabbi Meir Kahane, who recently concluded an alliance between his militant Jewish Defense League and Colombo's league, were among the few nonfamily members to pass Vingo's muster. Davis, who emerged from the hospital grim and tight-lipped after visiting with the Colombo family, refused to comment on the shooting, saying only that Colombo has "our prayers...
Born into the stifling world of Victoriana, little Beatrix lived in a universe of iron stricture. There were bars on her bedroom windows; a grim governess ordered her life. She was denied dolls-but she was allowed to have a pet rabbit. It was that little rodent that formed the foundation for her career. Little Beatrix observed him well and immortalized him as Peter Rabbit. Her fresh pastel drawings and brief, energetic tales-of birds, foxes, fish and mice-caught the fancy of children throughout the Western world. By her death in 1943, Beatrix Potter was second to only...