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Greek & Graceful. The letters show Wilde as something far more than the talented fop of his own self-caricature. The collection begins with fond early letters from Wilde to his friends at Magdalen College, Oxford. Their nicknames are "Kitten," "Bouncer" and "Puss" (Wilde's was "Hosky"). Wilde's active homosexualism is not thought to have begun until years later; nothing is to be inferred from cute nicknames or cuddly phrases beyond the surrogate sexuality common to young upper-class British males in Victorian times. The public-school youth of those years lived a womanless life from the time...
Dissolving Society. A solidly muscled man who looks like a bouncer in a waterfront saloon, Chan Po-cheung was born in the Toishan district, southwest of Canton, and grew up in the violence of a dissolving society. When he was eleven, his father was murdered by a hired gangster because of a property dispute, and the killer went free owing to his political connections. At 17, while South China was still shakily controlled by Chiang Kaishek, Chan was a student at a police training school in Canton. He spoke openly against the Nationalist regime and was overheard by a plainclothesman...
...born. When prayer ("Dear Lord, if you will let my dear baby Chuckie live") saved his son from a serious illness, Billington, then an Akron rubber worker, promised to preach. True to his word, he began "Bible searching'' after work, found a job as an usher-bouncer in a revival temple. By 1932 he was broadcasting sermons over "Radio Station WJW-Watch Jesus Win." Two years later he was ordained...
Last week the interregnum ended as Shor proudly opened the doors of his new place, which, by happenstance, occupies the site of the old Leon & Eddie's, where Shor had been a $50-a-week bouncer. His new joint, a handsome nine stories high, cost $5,000,000. Inside, the new Shor's reflected the old: a huge circular bar, a wood-paneled main room, dining room upstairs, hatchicks who look like ladykins. Chief added feature: a 400-car garage on the top seven floors, which will enable customers, in the words of a Shor lieutenant, "to scratch...
...Charley David single-handedly stood off a Dartmouth charge with two hard tackles, center forward Chris Ohiri not control of the ball 20 yards out from the Indian nets on the right. He maneuvered around the milling defenders until he saw a clear shot, and then drove a low bouncer past Ellington into the left-hand corner of the goal. The score came after 6:30 of the second period...