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When you see Bobby Leo run 50 Yards for a touchdown, or Keith Sedcek sink a 30-foot jump shot, or Jim McCandlish pitch a two-hitter, do you have difficulty suppressing Walter Mittyish dreams of being a sportswriter? If so, you're not alone...
Next month he will tackle Brahms's Sonata in F Major for piano and cello with Gregor Piatigorsky. He has never played it before. But Cellist Piatigorsky is not at all concerned. "Artur," he says, "will read the score on the plane to California, and he will make it sink into his mind and into his fingers, and when he arrives, he will know it better than I, who have played it all my life...
Standing in the middle of the council floor, the ex-mayor often to let the weight of his words sink in He told of alleged meetings that Smith had had and how he, Crane, had received information of those meetings. Smith "didn't know that as soon as the meeting was over, someone went out and called Crane." It was the old story of political friends, who in a time of political fighting, become one's spies. And as he lambasted, Crane also lectured. Referring to his enemies, he sneeringly scolded: "These boys and rookies . . . The most important thing...
...over Brown. Actor Ronald Reagan was ahead by 4.4% , former San Francisco Mayor George Christopher by 15.1%. Brown brushed this aside with his wonted non-eloquence: "I've never been ahead in any poll, but when it gets right down to the 18th hole and you have to sink those long putts...
...criteria. In dinghies, Chapman Yates leads the fleet with its new 8-ft. 3-in. Hydro-Pram, available for either sail ($465) or outboard ($250). Because of a thick bottom layer of polyurethane foam, it will not capsize with a 145-lb. boy standing on its gunwale, nor sink when filled with water and two beefy men. Total weight: 90 lbs. Lighter still is the 10-ft. 4-in. Swift, George O'Day's bid for a slice of the sailboard market. Only 80 lbs., the Swift costs $250, features a self-bailing cockpit and toeholds for hiking...