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...find that I like cold countries now," said Newscaster Lowell Thomas last week as he celebrated his 79th birthday. "The heat takes it out of you." The heat isn't all that does it. At Miami's Crandon Park Zoo, where he was visiting Mohan, a 1,500-lb. rhinoceros that he had helped to capture, Thomas turned to talk to the keeper while feeding his rhino friend some greens. Mohan munched the greens and went right on munching until he was lunching on Thomas' trousers. "I was lucky," said Lowell. "If he had got hold...
Flight Pattern. Last week in Manhattan, no fewer than seven major exhibitions opened on Saturday. The crowds that cruised through them followed an invisible but well-defined flight pattern either up or down Madison Avenue between 79th and 57th Streets...
...Seals in 39th, Phil Lichtenstein in 74th, and captain Andy Meltzoff in 79th completed the Yardling scoring in their final meet of the season...
...circuit, specializes in the sophisticated songs of the 1930s and '40s. Hunched over his piano in the ship's dimly lit, couch-lined salon, he plays with a rolling, lilting style that is guaranteed not to rock the patrons or the boat, which is moored at the 79th Street causeway. The son of a New York Philharmonic percussionist, he says that the chatter of the customers does not bother him, especially since they put up to $200 a week in tips on his piano. His secret, he explains, is that "I don't play at them...
...superior there was a dead horse on Kosciuszko. The officer said, "Well, make out your report." The policeman, a poor speller, disappeared. After an hour, he came back disheveled and out of breath. His officer demanded to know where he had been. Replied he: "I moved the horse to 79th Street...