Word: lifters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Helden Chest. The other winner, William Cochran, 25, was almost barred from the audition as too young. A huge, 250-lb. former weight lifter and lineman on the Wesleyan University football team, Cochran once wanted to become a minister. But singing in the Wesleyan Glee Club eventually diverted him to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Already a veteran of concert engagements and small roles at the Metropolitan Opera, his selections from Lohengrin and Walkure displayed massive power and a brilliantly glossy upper register. Every day, Cochran runs a mile and works out to preserve such Heldentenor traits...
What's more, the mountain is there for everyone. No one but a weight lifter or a masochist can pretend to enjoy wrestling with a heavy reel that spans 6 in. across and weighs 101 lbs.-assuming they can afford the cost (up to $800 for the biggest Fin-Nor model). Yet a six-year-old youngster or a 60-year-old grandmother can play all day with a little 2½/Oreel and a rod as supple as a willow wand. Last February Mrs. Evelyn M. Anderson, 60, a Glendale, Calif., housewife, boated a 353-lb. black marlin...
Classes on body awareness are run by Bernard Gunther, a sometime weight lifter and yoga student, in order to "get people to let go of an excessively verbal image of themselves." After having his students stand barefoot on a sheet and feel the grass under it, he pairs them off, asks them to "converse" by slapping each other's arms and shoulders. In "the Gunther sandwich," one student lies face-down on a sheet; two others kneel beside him, pound his legs, buttocks and back with their hands. Then the three stretch out and cling to each other. Gunther...
...Chickens" & "Shakemen." The ring's chief method of operation was as simple as it was effective. A decoy-the part played by Fellebaum, 27, an ex-weight lifter-would pick up a victim, usually in a bar, take him to a hotel room and engage in a homosexual act. The decoy, called a "chicken," would then steal or take by force the victim's credit cards and identification, and give them to the ring's "shakemen." Days, weeks, or even months later, the shakemen, posing as police officers, would visit the victim. They would tell him that...
Much of the credit for the change can be chalked up to Publisher Otis Chandler, 38, a fun-loving surfer and weight lifter who took over from his father Norman in 1960 and surprised everybody with his energetic approach to his job. Under his urging, the paper has been noticeably brightened. Page 2 is devoted to capsule summaries of the day's news, with the less important stories getting no further space in the paper-a practice that opens up many more columns for stylishly written news analysis and interpretation. Recently, in an effort to make the paper more...