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...tell you about the old black man I interviewed for "Division Street?" Oh, he was fantastic. He's about 85 or so, retired--worked as a boner for a meat packing company...
Spassky did not disappoint them. He entered to enthusiastic applause, then set to work with a standard PK4 opening. Just eight moves and 20 minutes later, he claimed his first victim, Gordon Thompson, 26. "I made a terrible boner," said Thompson. "I had hoped to last at least ten moves...
...pestilential prison, fed on sawdust and water, and confined in stocks or manacles for as much as two or three years before the bishop bothered to bring him to trial. Usually the prisoner was beaten by his jailers; often he was put to the rack. A nasty bishop named Boner once held a prisoner's hand over a candle flame "till the sin ews burst, and the water did spurt into the dean's face." Accused heretics not infrequently died of mistreatment before they could be executed, and quite often went insane. But according to Foxe they seldom...
...then, with a third-and-three situation on its own 20 yard line in the fourth quarter, Harvard came up with its second boner of the day--a pitchout which was intercepted by Columbia on the 18. Seven plays later, with only 11 seconds remaining in the game, coach Buff Donelli's Lions pushed the ball over to make the final score 26 to 14. Quickly, the 11,000 fans who had received an extra bonus--a riot at halftime over an attempted Columbia attack on the mammoth Harvard drum--settled back and accepted what they had expected going into...
...Angeles papers ran poll results, otherwise avoided getting out on a limb. As for the other New York newspapers, the most remarkable performance was a public display of neuro-journalism by the New York Post (see below). The usually hep New York Daily News pulled an Election-Night boner with the un-Newsworihy headline, HARRIMAN JUMPS AHEAD IN CITY VOTE, at the same hour that the competitive Mirror was proclaiming ROCKY WINS. The Herald Tribune's national political pundit, Joseph Alsop (TIME, Oct. 27), wrote four days before election that "anyone would be a fool to forecast...