Such Interesting People
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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