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...rival teams venture onto the Notre Dame campus. Backed by the loudest, most rabid rooters this side of the Roman Colosseum, the Fighting Irish invariably play over their own heads-while their luckless opponents lose theirs-in an ear-shattering din that is roughly akin to playing inside a bass drum. Two years ago, for example, undefeated U.C.L.A. sailed into South Bend, Ind., and was scuttled in one of the most startling upsets of the season...
...time she was 18, she had been a hairdresser, milliner, pawnshop clerk, librarian, even a cobbler. But having sung on the side all the while, she felt ready to try out for Blanche Coleman's all-girl band. "Good pipes," they told her, "but can you play a bass?" Fortunately for Dankworth and her later career, she could not. Even with Dank-worth's band, she felt after a few years like a "necessary evil" and decided that it was necessary to strike out on her own. What she found waiting for her out there was mostly straight...
...hospital workers are relieved but not happy with the settlement, Emily Bass, a spokesman for the workers, said last week. "When you don't have any power, you have to make deals," she added...
There is, of course, an aesthetic case to be made against the national anthem. As Bass-Baritone George London indicates, the song is "impossible to sing if you're sober...the words do not automatically communicate their message." Another opera star, Enrico Caruso, found so little to understand in The Star-Spangled Banner that he devised a phonetic version: "O seiken iu see bai dhi dons erli lait/Huat so praudli ui heild at dhi tuailaits last glimmin..." As for those who do comprehend the message, what is there to like? Images of "the rockets' red glare, the bombs...
...which is taken up by the huge editorial table, and the cumbersome stove, are gathered about a dozen men, lolling in the window-seats, seated upon the paper-box or around the table. On the table is a large bowl of mild punch, a bottle or so of Bass's Ale (for the men in training) and a can of crackers. Near each man is a glass filled with his chosen drink, and scattered about at convenient intervals are piles of crackers. Smoke from pipes, cigars, and cigarettes curls gracefully from the lips of the smokers to the thin blue...