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Next come the makings for amateur bombs: jars of gunpowder, lengths of pipe and a homemade blasting cap fashioned from fuse cord and a rifle shell. Given crank's capacity for rendering even casual users clinically psychotic (the transparent spiders weave webs inside the brain long after the meth has left one's system), the arsenal is probably unnecessary, real weapons amassed for a figmentary showdown...
...July 12, 1895. His father William was a theatrical manager; his grandfather Oscar I, a legendary impresario who took on the Metropolitan Opera by building his own opera house. The young Oscar was stagestruck from childhood, and by the time he attended Columbia University, he was performing and writing amateur routines. It was after the Saturday matinee of a college varsity revue that he first met Rodgers, whose older brother brought him to the show. Years later, remembering this meeting, Hammerstein wrote, "Behind the sometimes too serious face of an extraordinarily talented composer...I see a dark-eyed little...
This summer James will test the pro waters asan amateur, almost certainly continuing during thefall term, and he will decided whether or not toreturn to Harvard in the spring based on hissuccess...
Pena is Northeastern's Hank Contos, an athletic first baseman who hits for both power and average. Pena is a preseason All-American, and College Baseball New England projects him as a top-five pick in the June amateur draft...
...long as he accepts only expenses for compensation he can retain his amateur status. Blake does not foresee creating a rift with his teammates over a potential departure...