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Record, Record! At the steep grade known as Heartbreak Hill, near the Boston College campus, the Finn put on steam, gained a 75-yard lead. Kelley put on a burst of his own, picked up 25 yards. But Viskari was still running steadily. Desperately, Kelley tried to catch up, but with no success, and as they sprinted down Commonwealth Ave., Viskari pulled away, turned into Exeter St. and loped to the finish line two blocks away. Mayor John B. Hynes clapped the laurel wreath on his head and adoring Finnish-Americans enshrouded him in a blanket. Unsure of Viskari...
...Climax! failed with its version of Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 novel. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a story of love and loss in World War I. Dorothy McGuire, looking at moments remarkably like Grace Kelly, flung herself into the role of the lovelorn girl with more abandon than heartbreak, and John Forsythe as her man had the air of a man looking desperately for the nearest exit...
...Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley; Victor). A new singer with a new twist: a double voice that alternates between a high, unpleasant quaver, reminiscent of Johnnie Ray at his fiercest, and a rich basso that might be smooth if it were not for its spasmodic delivery. Heartbreak Hotel, yelps the high voice, is where he's going to get away from it all. Answers the basso: he'll be sorry...
...fear it. In this scientific age most of us accept the biological doctrine that birth and death are the essential machinery of evolution, reciprocal phases that make it possible for a species to change, perhaps to improve, over long periods of years. But that takes none of the heartbreak out of it, none of the sense of needless loss. And there are some few in every generation whom we would like to see exempt from the general...
Summertime. Katharine Hepburn finds love and gentle heartbreak in Venice; with Rossano Brazzi (TIME, June...