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Patrolman John Bodkin, 34, and his partner, Charles Anderson, 43, are called to investigate a domestic spat on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Inside the apartment they find a young Negro couple. One look convinces Bodkin that the husband is coiled like a spring, ready for battle. Pointedly, Bodkin, who is white, detaches his nightstick and hangs it on a chair out of reach. He takes off his hat. "Do you mind if I smoke?" he asks. "I'm a cigar smoker, and some people don't like the smell of cigar smoke in the house." Stunned...
Freelance Writer Gloria Steinem played Lady Macbeth in a Luis Estevez creation that consisted of five widely spaced bands of chinchilla held together by transparent black net. In between was supposed to be little more than a bare bodkin. "I'm supposed to have on one body stocking," confided Gloria, "but I have on three." "I like to look pretty, not kooky," said Chessie Rayner, explaining why she put on a white silk slip underneath Bill Blass's fishnet A-line dress...
Western Kennedy had looked miserable losing to Maryland in the first round of the tournament, but their height was sufficient to give them a victory over the Crimson. The Colonels' front line averaged 6-8, and they were good shooters too. Ed Bodkin, a 6-7 forward, hit 10 for 13 shots in the second half, scored 37 for the game, and shared the tourney's most valuable player award...
...music festival, Todd soon finds his apartment burgeoning with Nicole, Elke, two teenagers, an Italian cellist, and some spongy smart talk. As a friend who pops by on occasion, Classicist Judith Anderson clowns with the air of a lady willing but unable to whip out a bare bodkin and turn the arrant nonsense into a bloody good show. Would that she could...
...once again went the shingle of Britain's Dr. John Bodkin Adams, 62, whose 1957 acquittal on charges of murdering an 81-year-old patient who had remembered him in her will was followed by his expulsion from Britain's Medical Register for 14 violations of prescription, dangerous-drug and cremation regulations. Reinstated after being rebuffed in two previous petitions, the portly Pickwickian physician will not resume his fashionable private practice, plans instead to do research in anesthesiology...