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...might shiver with the cold; medics thought they would often be hungry; psychologists feared that a massive fistfight might break out. But last week, as the recruits emerged after 14 days of confinement, they made it clear that their molelike life had been tolerable enough-merely a crashing bore...
...other hand, probably the best pieces in the book are the accounts of Perelman's travels, especially a seven-part series entitled "Dr. Perelman, I Presume, or Small Bore in Africa." The first piece, "This Is the Forest Primeval?" presents the meeting of Perelman, a cringing coward, with the bluff, devil-may-care British explorer group...
Although billed as a Sunday paper, the Observer bore little resemblance to the laminated bundle of news, features, supplements and comics that characterize the rest of the Sunday press. Vol. I, No. 1 of the Observer was a single section of 32 pages-half of it ads. Of six Page One stories, four datelessly treated trends or events long since dissected by other newspapers, e.g., a lengthy article on police corruption that reprised a Chicago police department scandal (1960) and a similar dustup in Denver...
Flanked as usual by small-bore mobsters and tailed by the customary bevy of cops (including half a dozen U.S. narcotics agents who unsentimentally filmed the mourners), Charles ("Lucky") Luciano made his last appearance in his Naples parish church. The late vice lord was encased in a mahogany casket. Following a eulogyless Requiem Mass and a brief bout of fisticuffs between a Luciano pal and a photographer who tried to snap "Charlie Lucky's" last girl friend, a gaudy and gargantuan funeral carriage drawn by eight beplumed horses carried the corpse to temporary rest at the English Cemetery...
...ship, wrote Jarrell, lay 15 miles off Fire Island, awash in millionaire yachtsmen, bubbly flappers, lush chorines, and "revels de luxe." His reporting was meticulous: the cutlery and napery, he wrote, bore the name of "the Friedrich der Grosse, a former North German Lloyd liner." One redhead stood on the dance floor shouting: "This is an epic lark...