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...bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw hat-and a set of military uniforms. Then, mixing himself an oldfashioned, he settled down to begin his two weeks' summer training with the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Group...
...items. Frey's firm has sold 4,200,000 records in the past four years, grossed $12 million. Customers for Frey's cacophony are children, camera fans who want authentic background sound for their home movies, and-most of all-the "pingpong trade," as diskmen call hi-fi buffs who delight in dramatizing stereo by playing such demonstration recordings as the sounds of a pingpong match. "Look," explains Frey. "A guy goes out and gets himself a Superduper Mark IV amplifier and what the mooch wants to listen to is something to prove to everybody that...
...carpenters. Kelly will lead him through part of it ("You're walking down a street, you see a little girl, you see a bird"). Then the partners, with Gleason still in costume, pile into Jackie's turquoise and Burgundy Rolls (bar, phone, TV, refrigerator, stereo hi fi, air conditioning) and hunt photogenic cemeteries because Gigot is supposed to love funerals...
...Heaven." "St. Philomena" was "discovered" on May 24, 1802 in the catacomb of St. Priscilla on Rome's Via Saleria Nova as the skeleton of a 13-to 15-year-old girl with a badly fractured skull. On her grave was the cryptic inscription: LUMENA PAXTE CUM FI. The letters of the inscription were on tiles, and scholars came to the conclusion that they had somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed to have been...
...since he has tenaciously guarded his private life from view. He and his wife (he has two daughters, both at college) live in a big and ancient house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, have a summer place in New Hampshire. Land likes to relax with his large hi-fi collection, occasionally plays tennis, is a fast and retentive reader...