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...Kaynes features a looping twist serve and an accurate, hard-to-handle slice backhand. Like Frey and Gordon, Kaynes needs authority at the net, but the past week has shown improvement in this department...
What keeps the whole collection from descending to the merely pathological is an undercurrent of compassion and a ruthless economy of phrase that never slashes when it can slice and never slices when it can probe. None of the stories has a surplus word or a spare character. In every one, the situation is stripped down to its essentials and developed with a sure swiftness and precision. Unpleasant as they are, his first stories put Author Wilson near the head of the class...
...slice of a second later at the gun, Brawner found himself a yard behind right at the outset. After the first 100 yds., he began to pull up. Verdeur more than held his own on the turns at the end of the 25-yd. pool, but Brawner gained steadily on the straightaway. With his longer reach and the airfoam floating ride he gets, he was using only three strokes to the champion's five...
...Chairman Irving S. Olds offered another kind of comment. In his annual report last week, he disclosed that profits in 1949 were the highest since 1929 and totaled $165,908,829 (v. $129,627,845 in 1948). But Olds carefully pointed out that U.S. Steel's slice of the nation's steelmaking capacity has declined steadily from 44.2% in 1902 to 32.2% today...
...Hope's $22,500 weekly stint, rumor says, will be dropped this spring by Lever Bros. Rexall Drugs is replacing the $14,500 Phil Harris and Alice Faye show with Richard Diamond, a Dick Powell $4,500 thriller. Amos 'n' Andy reportedly may have to slice their $20,000 price tag if they remain on the air. Burns & Allen, a $12,000 package last year, is now said to be selling for $8,500. Gloomed one radioman: "The handwriting on the wall is getting bigger and redder than ever, and these are the days when people...