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...gave meaning to Election Year 1958. Thus TIME'S editors could: ¶ Interpret the true significance of two Democrats who got drowned in an otherwise all-Democratic tide in Massachusetts, see THE NATION, Moderate Mandate. ¶ Show how the least publicized of all the elections might have the longest-lasting national effect, see box, Election Scorecard. ¶ Give an intimate account of the sort of political organization that changed the face of the political map, see MINNESOTA, Victory by Organization. ¶ Find Republicans who thought they saw a new Moses, see REPUBLICANS, And Then There Were...
...history's longest (1943-46) and most lurid paternity suits, Comedian Charles Spencer Chaplin was declared by a Los Angeles jury to have fathered Carol Ann (type B), daughter of Cinemaspirant Joan Berry (type A), despite evidence by three court-appointed physicians that this was impossible with his type O blood...
...field Hunter causes Ol' Debbil Walston no end of trouble by mooning about the wife he had to leave behind when he took on his new incarnation. "Wives," declares Walston woundedly, "cause me more trouble than the Methodist Church." In the longest-distance phone call in cinema history, he gets hold of Operative Lola (Gwen Verdon), still infernally seductive at the age of 172. Lola does not get what she wants, but the Senators do win the pennant and Hunter is mercifully transformed back into Robert Shafer...
...backbone of this team will undoubtedly be the fullbacks. Munro has two fine and temporarily healthy players at the positions. Junior Lanny Keyes, who was All-Ivy last year and who sports one of the longest kicks seen in a long time, is a fixture at left fullback, while Captain Terry O'Malley will start on the right. But both of these men have had leg troubles in the past and, as Munro puts it, "if we lose either of these men, we're in trouble...
Each has a different strong point to his game. Handsome, thin-lipped Arnold Palmer is one of the game's longest drivers. Brash, freckled Ken Venturi is without peer on long irons. Chubby, affable Bill Casper has the steadiest short game on the tour. There are weaknesses, too. Palmer is a streak player ("It seems I was always blowing up just when I thought my game was under control''). Both he and Venturi are subject to long sieges of putting miseries. Casper tends to scatter his long shots and has a predilection for one bad round...