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...Amateur tennis stinks-there's no money in it any more." With this overhead smash, 21-year-old Frank Kovacs, second-ranking tennist in the U.S., turned pro last week. So did 23-year-old Bobby Riggs, U.S. No. 1. For 22 weeks, starting Dec. 26 in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Riggs and Kovacs will barnstorm 80 U.S. cities-along with Oldtimers Don Budge and Fred Perry...
...only fanfare that attended the first Any Questions? program last January was the moan of sirens and the smash of explosives. BBC had been bombed; the producer of the program was trying to get his family out of a danger zone 200 miles away; it was a wet, cold, angry evening. At an emergency underground studio arrived Expert No. 1: wild-haired Professor Julian Huxley, fresh from the Zoo, where he had been seeing to the safety of tigers. Expert No. 2, Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, clumped in on loud-nailed boots, carrying a vast haversack. Expert...
...sets and costumes by a Manhattan-French commercial artist (Marcel Vertés.) the hats by chic U.S. milliners (John-Frederics), the choreography by a veteran Russian (Michel Fokine), the leaping and cavorting by a foreign legion of nationalities(the Ballet Theatre). Such was the ballet Bluebeard, a smash hit whenit was put on last week in Manhattan...
...chemical ingenuity which will not only smash the bottleneck but may soon cut the price of magnesium from 27? to 10? a lb. and make magnesium a goodly post-war competitor of both aluminum (now 15?) and plastics...
...really good. As a singer who can act or an actor who can sing, whichever way you prefer, Danny is a winning combination. His personality and pantomime hold the center of the stage from curtain to curtain, and put over the last number, "Melody in 4F," with a climaxing smash which should keep the wolf away from the box office door for a long season...