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...cockfighting today is a tawdry, fugitive affair of back alleys and darkened cellars. But in the bigtime environs of the Orlando (Fla.) Game Club, cockfighting is a perfectly legal "sport" whose devotees are proud of its bloody heritage. Last week, as the Game Club staged its 42nd annual international tournament, a trade magazine called Grit and Steel was moved to declare that the Orlando is "the oldest and most steeped in tradition" of all U.S. cockfighting events...
Sipping coffee and reading the business section of the Times in an Automat at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, she came upon an ad announcing the opening of a new investment-counseling firm, Glass & Krey, just up the street. Sylvia made the trip over in such a hurry that her Phi Beta Kappa key was still swinging like a pendulum on her bosom when she arrived at the desk of Arthur William Glass. The sight of the pendant transfixed him. "I've always wanted to hire someone with one of those," he murmured before Sylvia could open her mouth...
Bowling, which has been regarded by big-city sophisticates as a small-town or suburban sport, invaded Manhattan last week with a bang. The Grand Central Bowl Co. announced it will build a $3,000,000 bowling center at Grand Central Terminal in the airspace over the 42nd Street waiting room...
...Hawaii, the urge to go native overcame Conductor Leonard Bernstein on his 42nd birthday, so he stripped down for action and conducted a seashore luau on the island of Maui. Clad only in a slit-to-hip malo and a rakish palm hat, Bernstein entertained his entire New York Philharmonic Orchestra, which was flown over to Maui after two concerts under Bernstein's baton in Honolulu. During the day the mellowing boy wonder of music went waterskiing, stuffed himself with poi and other Hawaiian goodies, planted a coconut tree and got a raft of gifts, including a pass exempting...
...July 23 1960 P.G.A. Championship (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). The 42nd Professional Golfers' As sociation Championship, from Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio...