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The principal of the school announced that — despite the help of private tutors in Hollywood and Philadelphia — Fabian is a 10-o'clock scholar in English and mathematics. Lacking his needed credits in those subjects, Fabian will not graduate with his old classmates next week. South Philadelphia High's principal added that the current delay was caused by the "pressure" of a movie that the toneless lad was making.
To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson (TIME cover, Aug. 29), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960. As the world's top sports man — pro or amateur — SPORTS ILLUSTRATED tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer (TIME cover, May 2), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year.
Tooling through Sydney on his way to race in the New Zealand Grand Prix, Britain's balding Ace Driver Stirling Moss, 31, all but smothered himself in his own exhaust of self-crimination. "I'm a slob," he announced. "My taste is gaudy. I'm useless for anything but racing cars. I'm ruddy lazy, and I'm getting on in years. It gets so frustrating, but then again I don't know what I could do if I gave up racing." Has Moss no Stirling virtues? "I appreciate beauty." One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U.S.S.R.'s daily Izvestia, enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian Charlie Chaplin at his Swiss villa, where he has been in self-exile since 1952. Chaplin, 71, who met K. when the Soviet boss visited England in 1956, confided that he hopes to visit Russia some time this summer because "I have marveled at your grandiose experiment and I believe in your future." Then Charlie spooned out some quick impressions of the Nikita he had glimpsed: "I was captivated by his humor, frankness and good nature and by his kind, strong and somewhat sly face."