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SMITTIE had to get his rocks off, So he went to Bermuda and got them off, several times...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Why Do the Birds Go On Singing? | 4/17/1971 | See Source »

...three of us pondered Smittie's night. College Week III in Bermuda; like College Weeks I and II, is a seven-inning ballgame, and old Smittie was back in the dugout with a big head over whoever his opponent was. He was sorry to hear we hadn't scored. But unlike Daytona, there isn't that heightened sense of male competition in Bermuda. Of course, Smittie figured he was paying dearly for such services, to the tune of $45/day, so he deserved everything he could get. "Jesus, I really had to get my rocks off," he reflected. "Now they...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Why Do the Birds Go On Singing? | 4/17/1971 | See Source »

Born in Chester, England, Brooks came to the United States when he was four and won his first swimming medal at 13 for coming in third in a three-man race. In 1930 he turned to coaching, and in 1936, 1948, and 1952 was head coach of the Bermuda Olympic team. He received three bronze medallions...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Coach Brooks Will Retire | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

...polyester resin. A group of Bowery winos sprawl filthily on a littered sidewalk; a dead motorcyclist, hideously mangled, lies pinned under his wrecked machine. In Tourists, Hanson extends his distaste to Mr. and Mrs. Middle America on vacation somewhere in the sun: he with his Hawaiian shirt and baggy Bermuda shorts and festooned camera equipment, she with her blue sunglasses, red slacks and gold sandals, both staring with puzzled receptiveness at-what? A palm tree? A Morris Lapidus facade? Hanson has pinned down the fragile particularity of pure banality. There may seem to be something too easy, almost flip, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of the Junkyard | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

...rapidly-dying breed of whale sang these "songs" in the Athlantic off Bermuda. Some of the sounds are laughably unmusical-the closest description might be of a constipated cow in pain. Others simulate underwater noises: burbling and the purring of motors. And there are a few beautiful echoing calls-like those chosen for back-up on Judy Collins' latest album-that send chills down your spine...

Author: By Deboratt B. Johnson, | Title: Whalesongs Beneath the Surface | 12/15/1970 | See Source »

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