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Bang or Bust. Bill Cosby is a shy and studious young Negro comedian who went to Temple University, where he was a good student, a football halfback, and a multipurpose track athlete. He got his early experience in coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, where he used to tell race jokes, but now that he is booked into the big time (Chicago's Mister Kelly's, San Francisco's hungry i, Manhattan's Village Gate), he has decided to bang or bust as a general comedian rather than as a colorful colored man. He has worked...
...Challenge Cup game. Contestants: West Ham, the British team that won the 1963 I.S.L. championship, and Dukla, a top Czech team. Dukla took the two-game series, 1-0 and 1-1. The margin of victory was a late goal booted in the second game by Left Halfback Josef Masopust, whom European newsmen voted Europe's "player of the year" in 1962. At the victory party, the Dukla coach hoisted a glass of beer and said, "Jsem stastny," meaning, roughly, "I am a happy man." Guest Cox, doubtless thinking of those 15,231 paid admissions, lifted a glass...
...Dartmouth (the undefeated champion) the football squad won its last four games to finish in second place with a 5-2 record. Although Dartmouth will again be the team to beat, the Crimson could be a strong contender this season if sophomores come through at two key positions, halfback and tackle...
Married. Dinah Washington, 38, jazz record queen (What a Difference a Day Makes); and Dick ("Night Train") Lane, 35, durable defensive halfback for the Detroit Lions; he for the second time, she for the seventh; in Las Vegas...
...World's Fastest Human today is a junior at Florida A. & M. who rarely booms and never floats. A shifty cut-and-shoot halfback on A. & M.'s football team, Robert Hayes, 20, runs the 100 as if he were cracking an enemy line: head bobbing, shoulders rolling, so pigeon-toed that he often steps on his own feet-a painful experience when he is wearing half-inch-long track spikes. "Starts are my weakness," Hayes said before last week's A.A.U. championships in St. Louis. "I don't get my top speed until...