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Given this leeway, rival centers struggle for position in their own private wrestling matches under the basket. Boston's barrel-chested Jim Loscutoff is respected for his skill at disconcerting a jump shooter by jabbing him in the ribs with a massive forefinger. New Boy Robertson is already an expert at putting a hand on his man's hip and swinging himself around his rival. (Says Schayes: "Someone is going to grab that arm some day and throw Robertson into the third row.") St. Louis' hulking Clyde Lovellette daintily holds his man by the seam...
Fortunately, however, the University still contains a small minority dedicated to the 'rag'--the student practical joke. In the past six years, 'raggers' have tethered a goat on Merton Chapel roof, driven an Austin down a Botany Department corridor, rolled a barrel into a graduate student maternity ward at 2 a.m. (the authorities gave the culprit a second chance and he was expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after...
...cliched phrase like "life began at 40" for Ray Miller is no indignity. For he insists that the best philosophy of public relations and of life can be summed up in a series of cliches, epithets, Judaic-Christian homilies and the cracker barrel logic he picked up as a farmer in his native California. "There is no substitute for simplicity," and "if you can learn to work with mules you can learn to work with men" he says with a perfectly straight face. This simple approach has become the nucleus of "his brand" of public relations...
...Tokle smokes and drinks ("It hasn't hurt me yet"), credits his longevity as a jumper to his trade: "As a carpenter, I get eight hours of exercise a day." To strengthen his legs and ankles, the tireless Tokle is fond of turning a barrel on its side, hopping on top and running at full tilt while it spins beneath him ("You ought to try it sometime...
Died. Philip B. Sharpe, 57, author and firearms expert who financed his early research by writing detective and adventure stories and who during World War II proved the feasibility of a curved-barrel rifle for house-to-house fighting by putting six shots in an 8-in. bull's-eye at 75 yds. while firing around a corner; of a heart attack; in Emmitsburg...