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...escort the Negroes safely from the park. But all that afternoon fist fights blazed up; Negro boys were chased and beaten by white gangs. In the gathering dusk, one grown-up rabble-rouser spoke out. "Want to know how to take care of those niggers?" he shouted. "Get bricks. Smash their heads, the dirty, filthy...
...that she would become a "high dramatic soprano." But the big time was hard to break into: Juanita Hall was 35 before she padded onto a Broadway stage as Bloody Mary, the betel-chewing Tonkinese mama in South Pacific (TIME, April 18) and stole a considerable piece of that smash hit from Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
Died. Thomas O. Heggen, 29, Iowa-born Navy veteran who turned his wartime experience in the Pacific into the bestselling (more than 850,000 copies) novel Mister Roberts, collaborated with Joshua (South Pacific) Logan to turn it into a Broadway smash hit; by drowning in his bathtub after taking sleeping pills; in Manhattan...
...earth so dead on the base line that opponents frequently let it drop thinking it will be outside-and it almost never is. The score in the third set crept to 15-all. After winning one point, Freeman put what remaining strength he had left into a final smash. Ooi Teik Hock went down...
...Belvedere Goes to College (20th Century-Fox) gives Clifton Webb a chance to go on playing the comedy role that turned last year's Sitting Pretty into a smash box-office hit. Mr. Belvedere is no longer a babysitter, but he is still insufferably and hilariously patronizing; he is still a self-confessed genius and he is still broke. His bestselling book, Hummingbird Hill, has won him fame, but lost him a fortune in libel suits. All he has left is a $10,000 prize which he can collect only by taking a college degree. With acidulous hauteur...