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...Well, before I came on stage I smoked about a half pound of something, and drank a few pints of something else. But I'm just going to keep on boogie...
...Quentin belongs in American folklore as the kind of place where George Raft and a thousand other cons would pound their tin cups to scare the screws, a Cagneyesque sort of stir with even a certain nostalgic romance about it. Its reality, of course, has always been bleaker. Before Warden Clinton Duffy took over in 1940 and turned "Q" for a time into a model for penal reform, the vast sand-colored fortress on San Francisco Bay offered sadistic guards, shaved heads, the airless "hole" for solitary, dinner out of buckets and a gallows painted baby blue. But then...
Among the other races too close to call are the mile, in which Tom New and Quirk will face three good Northeastern runners. And in the 35-pound weight, Jay Hughes will have some difficulty with Northeastern's Jim Conboy and Paul...
Driesell had problems during the next winter. His varsity won only half of their 26 games. But he managed to recruit 6-11 Tom McMillen, the most sought-after high school prospect in the nation at the time. Len Elmore, a 6-9, 230-pound guard, and ballhandler Jap Trimble, and they formed the core of his unbeaten freshman squad last year. And even last winter, when his varsity was still only putting together a 14-12 record and a sixth-place finish in the ACC, he had sophomores like guard Howie White, one of the best field generals...
...Large shrimp that retailed in Manhattan a year ago for $2.50 per Ib. are now $3.25. Jim Mahoney, general manager of Miami's Gorton Shrimp Products, predicts that shrimp may become one of the U.S.'s costliest delicacies. "Shrimp people laughed when lobster went to $4 a pound," he says, "but for shrimp that's not too farfetched...