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...Sears disposed handily of Hirshman and Turner, 6-0, 6-1, and at third doubles the team of Weld and Laurie Pratt gave the Crimson its final match, 7-5, 6-2, over Fleishman and Shulman. The only loss in doubles came at the second position where the pickup team of Heckscher and Mills dropped a close, three-set contest to Leonard and Dells...
Nevertheless, It Moves ... In Hurst Green, Sussex, England, Policeman Ronald Marshall halted a prewar pickup truck, noted grass growing on one running board, an inch-long piece of metal in one tire, a triple-layer canvas patch on another, was assured by the driver, "I think the guv'nor is going to take it off the road soon...
Slowly the boycott took permanent shape. More than 200 volunteers offered the use of their cars; nearly 100 pickup stations were established. Church and mass-meeting collections kept the Montgomery Improvement Association alive at first; then donations began to flood in from across the U.S. and from as far away as Tokyo. By the end of last year the M.I.A. had spent an estimated $225,000. At every turn King outgeneraled Montgomery's white officials. Example: the officials went to court to have the M.I.A.'s assets frozen, but King had the funds scattered around...
This first novel is the year's most beautifully written love story. Set in Budapest in the lost era between the two world wars, it begins with a casual pickup on the Danube Corso and ends in heartbreak as poignant as the last act of Camille. The book, like the play, is about a girl with tuberculosis, but Author Boros' Dame aux Camélias is no languishing tragedienne drowning in a sea of self-sacrifice. Instead, young Lalla is self-sufficient, cheeky, preoccupied not with "how to live but how to stay alive...
...Tennessee (TIME, Oct. 24. 1955). This week, in celebration, Patrick's Brooks County farmer friends held a giant barbecue for him (6,000 chickens, i.ooo pecan pies). The Ford Motor Co. got into the act, picked up the food tab. gave Patrick one of its new combination pickup truck and passenger cars which the company will start producing for the farm trade next month...