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...event to figure in barroom betting. He has also been a regional billboard magnate, the owner of a newly thriving but previously cellar-dwelling baseball team and a somewhat more reliable basketball team, and the licensee of a non-network-aflfiliated UHF television station in Atlanta, TV's 17th largest market...
Utaemon, of course, is a man, as are all the members of the troupe. Kabuki originated at the beginning of the 17th century, when a legendary shrine maiden named Okuni took her temple dances on the road for profit. When prostitutes began imitating Okuni, using their dancing to entice customers, a shogunate concerned about public morality banned women from the stage...
...life with uncomfortable intimacy. While reporting to magazine headquarters in New York City from the Commodore Hotel in West Beirut, Stewart got word that his apartment house had been shelled. He rushed home, and amid the piles of plaster and shredded furniture found his prized statue of a 17th century Buddha presiding undamaged over the wreckage. Only one hour before, Stewart had been in the apartment writing his story...
...definite that whenever and wherever men beat sticks against the ground, they will remember Tom Watson, and they will probably also recall a 16-ft. chip shot from a fluffy clump of rough by the 17th green at Pebble Beach...
...such nervousness showed at the 17th hole as Watson drew back his sand wedge, opened the face of the club and slid it under the ball. "When the ball hit the green, I said, 'That's in the hole.' I just about jumped into the Pacific Ocean...