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...from John J. Pershing to Dwight Eisenhower, an unprecedented full-dress review of the Corps of Cadets upon his retirement in 1946, and a shiny screen biography (The Long Gray Line) in 1955; of a stroke; at West Point Army Hospital. As a mess waiter, nonswimming swimming coach and gym custodian, Maher was outranked but never outclassed by protégés who worked their way from bars to stars, but got their first fitness report from the mischievous "Marty." Among Marty's ratings: Pershing-"a holy terror, yet born to command"; MacArthur-"a genuwine genius"; Eisenhower...
...Capitol's east front 32½ feet forward-was a gleaming reality (although the new inte rior space will be useless until another $3,000,000 is sunk in remodeling). The outdoor platform where Kennedy will take the oath of office was in readiness, facing a jungle gym of stands for the press (more than 600 reporters-a record -have applied for credentials, including 75 foreign correspondents from as far away as Viet Nam, Malta and Indonesia...
Okonkwo was also dismayed to find himself exploited for propaganda. Last July he was boxing in a Moscow University gym when he was asked to pose for a photograph. In August he recognized himself in a full-page picture in a big-circulation magazine. On his wrists were broken chains, and near him cringed a white man with a whip...
...Manhattan. There are also places like the Metropole, where the old-timers of Dixieland stand atop the bar and blare forth to people who come in off Seventh Avenue. Wild Bill Davison, Roy Eldridge, Henry ("Red") Allen-they all show up at the Central Plaza, a mammoth jungle gym where teen-agers bring their own bottles and where there are two cops in uniform, so it seems, for every...
...gym interior has been re-designed so that the rear of the gallery serves as a small lobby, in which are displayed pictures and trophies of Harvard squash history. Many of the records in the lobby are those of Dixon, raquets captain in 1925 and former national champion...