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...bow marker on each shell indicates the position in which it started. A high-numbered shell passing a lower-numbered one is doing well, relatively speaking--it has picked up 10-15 seconds on the boat it passes...
...magnificently klutzy dope in The Lady Eve, the martinet in Fort Apache, the scruffy bandit leader in Once Upon the Time in the West. But, as he admits, the image that has sustained his career is of the man with strained conscience, like the reluctant hero of The Ox-Bow Incident or of 12 Angry Men. "I guess I go overboard to avoid taking credit for the image I have," says Fonda. "That way it's easier to live with myself. I don't feel I'm totally a man of integrity." He pauses thoughtfully...
...Casa Pacifica, which brought in about $100,000. Nixon reminisced about his memories of Orange County-the time he proposed to Pat at Dana Point and the days when he practiced law at La Habra. One of the most exuberant guests was John Wayne. Greeting the Missus with a bow and a kiss on the hand, the Duke said, "It's great to see Pat up and around and looking happy." As for her husband, the Duke enthused: "I was with the ex-President when he was a winner and a loser and a winner again...
...second violin in the Philadelphia Orchestra but longed to improvise. He played with Dance Band Leaders Jean Goldkette and Paul Whiteman, teamed up with Guitarist Eddie Lang to make hundreds of vintage jazz recordings and then formed his own band. An energetic performer who worked high jinks with his bow to play four strings at once, Venuti enjoyed a renaissance in the past decade and was still performing in jazz spots last spring...
...switched on, the first impact is like being caught inside a vacuum cleaner. But noise is soon forgotten as S 250 noses along just above the floor of the bay, a flat, sandy-brown miniature moonscape unrolling beneath the 3-in.-thick, 16-in.-in-diameter window in the bow. Cynically one expects to find old shoes and bottles. But there is nothing except large-grained sand and mud, now and then a stick or stone, crisscrossed by all sorts of hermit and spider crabs that slink out of sight. Only the bigger green crabs show fight. One stands...