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Such Interesting People (Continued from page S) II -A KELSO We met new and interesting peo ple in 1963. But new and interest ing horses? No! Even a scion long respected in thoroughbred racing circles admitted the current crop of horses hardly indicates we've been "improving the breed." He noted one exception, as did every body else Kelso. The gelding was Horse of the Year. But then Kelso was Horse of the Year in '60, '61, and '62. There's nobody else or so it seems until you remember that Kelso was once a scrawny lit tle foal almost abandoned until owner Mrs. Richard DuPont no ticed something special. She calls that special something "heart," and even gentle Kelso seems anx ious to meet a rival with an equal amount of it. back. He used to be an unhappy one, though. Like some other, play ers, he didn't like the fact that Paul Brown, one of football's all-time great coaches, told every player what to do on every play. Either he goes or I go, young Jimmy told owner Art Modell last year. So old Paul went. Now Jimmy had to prove his "palace revolt" was jus tified and he did by bowling over the opposition in a series of ground gaining records that swept Cleve land to its greatest season in many years. Brown the Younger was magnanimous: "I feel sorry for him (Paul). He had to make a cou ple of adjustments . . . but he didn't do it and it's a tragedy." Don't feel too sorry for Brown the Elder: he's getting $35,000 a year for not tell ing Cleveland players what to do. JIMMY BROWN Jimmy Brown of the Cleveland Browns is football's greatest full- DR. LINUS PAULING During World War II, they called Dr. Linus Pauling a "Jap lover" because he hired a Japanese gardemr. In the McCarthy era, he was denied a passport and was la beled a "pinko." (At the same time, the Russians also were denounc ing him.) In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, and this year he added a second the coveted Peace Prize. Pauling had long called for outlawing atomic test ing, and, ironically, the Nobel an nouncement came on the day the U.S.-Russian test-ban treaty went into effect. But in the eyes of many, Pauling was still controversial. Why, they asked, had he always condemned U.S. testing, never Rus sia's? Nor did Pauling escape la beling anew. This time he was called a "peacenik." BARBRA STREISAND "She changed a cult into a crowd in 1963," a reviewer said of the biggest new name in show busi ness. He was referring to sad faced Barbia Streisand, reported ly a Brooklyn-Greenwich Village kook (she denies it) with mesmer izing stage presence and incredible though untrained voice range. She won her cult in Broadway's "I Can Get It for You Wholesale," and added the crowd this year with cross-country appearances and record-breaking album sales. Her reaction to success at 21? "Don't call me just a singer I'm an ac tress. The only way I can get up there and sing is to see myself as an actress, acting to music." (She will get a major acting challenge portraying Fanny Brice in the forthcoming Broadway musical, "Funny Girl.") Why did she start her career in singing then? "My unemployment insurance was run ning out, and there was this ama teur contest at a night club a week's pay and free food." Then with heavy shrug: "So what-aya gonna do? Ya sing!" ARNOLD PALMER AND JACK NICKLAUS The Duke of Windsor was so amazed by what he saw he toppled right off his shooting stick. This time it wasn't a woman who un seated the ex-King of England, but the uncanny golf of two Ameri cans, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. This year they knocked over opponents from France to Australia and amassed more than $250,000 in prize money. But it had " been hard work, particularly with bursitis plaguing Palmer and Nick laus subject to a bad hip. Both vowed to appear in fewer tourna ments next year. "Money's not everything," Jack claimed. Maybe with Palmer and Nicklaus resting in 1964, other pro golfers would find out for themselves. ALBERT FINNEY London theatergoers first noticed the upstart actor when he stopped a performance and shouted at a noisy audience: "If you won't shut up, then go home. And if you won't shut up or go home then I'm go ing home!" American audiences got a less personal, but equally unfor gettable, introduction to Albert Finney this year in Broadway's "Luther" and in the movie, "Tom Jones," both outstanding successes. "A second Laurence Olivier," crit ics call the latest hero of the "Gin ger Group" of British actors (oth ers: Peter O'Toole, Joan Plow right) whose off-stage rebellious ness makes American Method ac tors seem like starchy old fuddie duddies. At 26, Finney has long been recognized as one of Eng land's potential greats, but he ha9 been in no hurry to prove it. "Albie" even turned down the title role in the spectacular film, "Lawrence of Arabia." Why did he turn it down? "I hate being committed to a girl, a film producer, or an image. I am Albert Finney." Family HVrkty. Derrmtwr 29, 1963
