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There is no apparent reason why the varsity should lose to the Middies, but if it allows itself to slip, the first boat will not even gets its chance for fame and fortune in the finals. The JV's have already been beaten by Syracuse but both Love and the seeding board rank them as favorites in this race...
...Poet in New York is very bad, partly because of the strange idiom he was working in, partly on account of his often-expressed desire to say something, to picture something, in a completely new, and preferably shocking, way. It is not so much that his metaphors and imagery slip out of focus, as Roy Campbell suggests, but they are sometimes strained and absurdly disjunct, unsequential and incoherent. Some of his worst lines, such...
While he was being treated at the hospital for a head wound, the police removed a slip of paper from his jacket, photostated it, and returned the paper to the jacket--all unknown to Costello, who was explaining that he "did not have an enemy in the world." The slip of paper listed winnings and I.O.U.'s from an unspecified casino and slot machines, the total being nearly one million dollars...
Meanwhile, sixty-six detectives are investigating Costello, the Revenue men are checking his slip of paper, the Supreme Court is reviewing his tax case, the Justice Department is working on his deportation, and attorneys are writing briefs on infringements of his constitutional rights. Last but not least, Frank Costello and his assistant, Dandy Phil Kastel, are probably looking for a "torpedo" who weighs two hundred and thirty-five pounds, and "waddles when he walks...
...cinemoguls once frothed when Lana Turner let slip to an interviewer that she had five TV sets, and Beverly Hills Furrier Al Teitlebaum had a customer who, aspiring to dramatize his contempt, ordered a TV set covered in skunk fur. Now TV sets glitter within Romanoff's and during lunchtime in the executive dining rooms of major studios, where the executives claim they use TV for casting ideas. Jack Benny has seven sets. TV exerts such a spell on movie stars-especially when it happens to be showing their old films-that it has rendered the movie colony housebound...