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...football games, dressed in the loud yellow jacket of the Tigers, the professor was usually on hand to lead the cheering. At dances he acted as "bouncer," at elections as "policeman." Sometimes he could be seen mowing his lawn in his underwear, sometimes taking a constitutional at 3 a.m., and sometimes wandering through the Southern Missouri hills, cape and all, looking for Indian mounds...
...Americans heatedly debate many issues, but we are not in the habit of criticizing one another outside the country. I therefore cannot agree with your criticism of a former American Administration." At a candlelight dinner at U.S. Ambassador Joseph Green's, young King Hussein, attired in a dinner jacket, bounded in like an American teen-ager come to pick up his date, stayed on to impress the Secretary with his earnest concern for his poor country. Dulles asked permission to visit some of the refugee camps; Jordan security officers refused, explaining: "We're not taking any chances...
...color that vibrates, then you put sequins on top and you have the giddiest vibrations in the world. The shaking light makes more excitement; the whole thing has a juvenile quality." In following this theory. White suffered only one absolute failure. He had designed-"a beautiful sequined jacket for the tiger trainer," and when the tigers saw it they roared with rage. "They didn't like my work," confesses White, "so he didn't dare wear...
...portrait of a domestic autocrat, Mr. Nicholas makes grimly impressive reading. Thomas Hinde is not quite the "white hope" of English letters that Novelist Henry (Loving) Green calls him in a jacket blurb, but at 27, after brief careers as a sailor, private tutor and circus hand, Hinde has put together an expert novel. His storytelling is done in meticulously understated style, but beneath its bland surface, Mr. Nicholas is relentless in its exploration of a quiet, homey little English hell...
Waist Gun. In Oakland, Calif., Merchant Seaman Enoch Bershofski, arrested for carrying a sawed-off shotgun inside his jacket, tried to convince police that he needed it to protect his bankroll...