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Voice from the Widely Bimps. When he isn't exploding all over the basketball court, Frank Keaney is a good-natured Irishman who saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples...
...have never been in any party more than 15 minutes. . . . We [liberals] are just a bunch of political prima donnas. . . . If everything doesn't go just our way, we bolt. . . . Let's not fool ourselves - we have more than 57 varieties." Despite their differences, the country's "liberals," LaGuardia thought, could pull together for "a proper economic adjustment in our country to permit people to live properly and decently." All 57 varieties of his listeners agreed. Frank King-don's National Citizens P.A.C. voted to dissolve*; so did Sculptor Jo Davidson's I.C.C.A.S.P...
Laski, always the lecturer, delivered a long harangue in answer to one question. Lord Chief Justice Goddard, who had sunk back in his chair, bored but still listening, sat bolt upright to translate to the jury. "The answer," he said, "is 'yes;' " and leaned back again...
AUGUSTE A. BOLT...
...BOLT ELWELL, seasoned by two years of experience, has been one of the defensive giants in the Eli's campaign this fall. The six-foot two-inch 205 pounder always turns in a steadily solid performance flanking the five-man Eli defensive line...