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Leon Sharpe was another Crimson standout. He took first place in the long jump, hurling himself 22 feet 10 inches; and in the triple jump with a 40 foot 1/4 inch performance. Bill Bihrle's leap of 6 feet 6 inches in the high jump gave him an upset victory...
Anderson would recognize the Stamper family of Sometimes a Great Notion. "Never give a inch" is the clan motto. Their dogged nonconformity takes heed neither of political fashion nor social form. When a general strike is called among the lumbermen of their small Oregon town, the Stampers go right on working. The union pays a visit, and the head of the clan (Henry Fonda) makes congenially threatening remarks about "Commie pinkos who tell us when to cut." Replies the bookish union leader: "That's as good a statement of 19th century philosophy as I've ever heard...
...ended. Now he jokes easily. Recently, on a flight between Chicago and Salt Lake City, he was confronted in the aisle by a woman carrying a baby. Kennedy grinned and told the reporters with him, "Hey, get this." He elaborately faked kissing the baby, with a loud smooch an inch from the infant's cheek. Then he collapsed laughing in his seat...
...full grown (I haven't grown an inch since then.) A cop shot me six times point-blank on that job, as I was standing with my hands in the air. After the second shot, when I was certain that he was trying to murder me. I charged him. His gun was empty and he had only hit me twice by the time I had closed with him--Oh, get this wild nigger off me.' ...I had two comrades with me on that job. They both got away because of the exchange between the pigs...
...across fields, but was finally caught cowering behind a heap of manure. The boy identified himself as Mario Roymans, 21. In his small apartment above a restaurant where he worked as a waiter, the lost Vermeer was found under his bed. Roymans' knife had sliced an inch or so of canvas around the edge of the painting, and areas of paint had flaked away. Rijksmuseum Director Arthur van Schendel reported sadly: "I think it can be restored, but it will never again be as it was before...