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...honor of McCarthy have taken a more solid form. There is McCarthy's Houston mansion, a white-pillared, $700,000 pile surrounded by vast lawns and trees bearded with Spanish moss. There is the 15,000-acre ranch on which he admires his blooded cattle and occasionally shoots deer, goats and turkeys. There is McCarthy's Colosadium (so far, only on paper), a 110,000-seat stadium for Houston with a sliding roof in case of rain. There are McCarthy's airplanes, which include a four-engined Boeing Stratoliner...
...Carlos did what irate fathers always do in zarzuelas: he threatened to pack Angelita off to a convent. To a friend the duke explained: "Mind you, I like Dominguín. He is a fine torero. He has the heart of a lion and the legs of a deer. What's more, he will probably end up much richer than I am. But there is one thing I simply cannot change-his family...
...conceded that, academically, Oxford was topnotch and that things like "Magdalen Deer Park on a medium cloudy day" were pretty fine. But as for everything else, mourned Burdick: "Youf writers have lifted the illusion so high, and war, proximity, and perhaps even the dollar shortage have forced reality...
...reporters hit the foyer at a dead run, tore through the lobby, and smashed the nose of a stuffed deer on their dash to pressroom telephones. "Bulletin! Bulletin!" shouted Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press. Said Smith to the U.P.: "Flash!" Bob Nixon yelped at the International News Service switchboard: "Flash, goddammit, gimme the desk!" At 11:05, bells on U.P. and I.N.S. tickers in hundreds of newspapers signaled the big news flash. Three minutes later, the A.P.'s bulletin was on the wire...
...dead zoo." Parents, too, gape and gawk at the floodlit glass cases which the museum describes as its "natural habitat groups." In the shadowy "North American Mammals" wing are windows overlooking a family of grizzly bears dining on ants in Yellowstone National Park, wolves loping after a deer by the glow of northern lights, bull moose fighting in a marsh, and Rocky Mountain goats scrambling sky-high along a cliff...