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...eager young athletes) and fur-trimmed galoshes (borrowed for the occasion from her teen-age daughter). Then she headed resolutely for the reception line. A Swedish official in a white sweater kissed her hand. Danny Kaye stopped to chat for a moment, and Art Linkletter, in a shaggy bearskin scrape, got a guffaw from Dick Nixon, and a comment: "Is this man or beast?" Then a stocky man in a blue-and-white Norwegian sweater came by. "I'm Bob Bennett," he said. "I'm sure you don't remember me, but I'd like...
...hunt that he is fully at ease only in the woods. Around people, Hulet wears an air of perpetual apprehension. Bulky and rounded (5 ft. 10½ in., 240 Ibs.), Hulet lumbers over the ground like the bear he hunts. And when he draws on his huge bearskin cape, Bill Hulet even looks like a bear...
...Oddly enough, the best piece is Miller's account of how, a little squiffed from cognac, he told the story of Goldilocks to his children. "One day the grizzly bear was out gathering wood for the fire," the father improvises shakily. "He had nothing on but his bearskin, and the flies were driving him mad ..." The son objects contemptuously: "I don't like the way he tells it, he's all mixed up." Determinedly, the father plows on. The reader may reflect that for a Henry Miller heroine, Goldilocks gets off easily. She is eaten...
...baiter of labor bosses though an American Newspaper Guild member himself, quite plainly saw his own responsibility, sat down at his drawing board and, with his characteristic heavy-lined style ("I can't draw tiny lines-I'm six feet four"), once again exposed Jimmy in his bearskin (see cut). Said Dobbins. "I'm pleased that I scored-he seemed such a hard guy to penetrate with ridicule...
Jimmy Thach lived airplanes. He was an ace test pilot, flew patrol duty in the Aleutians in Martin PBM-15 ("The bearskin flying suits stank like hell"), catapulted off a turret top of the cruiser U.S.S. Cincinnati in SOC-15, patrolled the Canal Zone in PBYs. Stationed in San Diego in the 19305, Thach met and married Madalyn Jones (they have two sons, John Jr., an experimental psychologist, and William Leland, about to enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them...