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...Jack Dempsey is still not a man to count out, as his landlords have learned. It seems that the Inch Corp., a real-estate holding company, bought the building that houses Jack Dempsey's restaurant, a Broadway landmark for tourists and the prizefight crowd, in 1967. Since then, Inch has tried to evict Jack on the grounds that his lease is no longer valid. Taking him to court in June 1973, Inch was outpointed when Dempsey won the ruling. Bouncing back, Inch sued again in December. Last week a judge again gave Dempsey the decision. Even as Jack savored...
McCafferty's 50-foot 7-inch shot and Niemi's 58-foot 10-inch throw won each a third place...
...know the thing a freakoid cracker hates most in the world? Platform shoes on a male. In any hip crowd you can spot the freakoid cracker. He'll be looking with utter disdain on the guy flying around with the four-inch platform heels. The English mod look...
...Earth Shoes, more and more shoppers-including such celebrities as Mark Spitz, James Coburn and Tony Curtis-are competing for limited supplies of clumpy footwear that defies most principles of shoemaking. Instead of sloping downward to the toe the heel of the Earth Shoe is approximately one-half inch lower than the forward part. The rubber sole, in turn, gradually thickens in the direction of the toe elevating the front of the foot and leaving the wearer balancing on his heels. "It's like walking barefoot on a soft, sandy beach," says Raymond Jacobs,' U.S. distributor...
...bike and let it slide on the road under you. There is a reason that you are supposed to sit on top of the bike. There is also a reason that they make grind stones out of rock and that sort of thing. I sanded about a quarter inch off my butt in that fall, and could not sit down for a week. I guess that I was kind of lucky though, because I skidded between the posts of a guard rail at a good 30 miles an hour. One of those posts sure would have done...