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Twenty years after his last bow, the paradigm of detective-as-Lochinvar is still Raymond Chandler's incorrodable shamus, Philip Marlowe. He was, of course, a total fiction. As Chandler admitted, "the real-life private eye is a sleazy little drudge... a strong-arm guy with no more personality than a blackjack. He has about as much moral stature as a stop-and-go sign...
...entrance, 14 floors up a 205-ft. escalator to the World's glass roof, the visitor is greeted by two huge sculptured mimes and two living counterparts who bow a welcome. Next comes a "Renaissance Midway," lined with circus wagons exhibiting such Krofftian put-ons as the Fat Lady, who turns out to be a performer garbed as a super-porker, and the Tattooed Lady, who is costumed as the world's only sexy rhino. Melody pours from a marvel designed by one Nick O'Lodeon, which features 29 instruments. A belly dancer gyrates, jugglers toss balls...
...never sure you'll win until you go over the finish line first, but I like to think in terms of probabilities, and I'd bet on us no matter what the odds." Harvard Heavyweights Stroke Scholle 7 Howeff 6 Aitken 5 Brock 4 Kevins 3 Kemp 2 Bixby Bow White Coxswain Larson...
...movie openings go, Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood made its bow with a wow. Producers of the film, a take-off on 1920s animal flicks, shunned the usual theater scene and held the premiere right on Paramount's spacious Hollywood lot. With good reason, since 100 of the 575 first-nighters were canines. Among them: Zsa Zsa Gabor's Lhasa Apso, Genghis Khan, and Valerie Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating...
Gerry Moshell takes a final bow before a Harvard audience this Saturday night as he conducts the last of many gala extravaganzas that, along with various non-musical antics, have made him an almost legendary figure on the Harvard music scene. Acknowledging rumors that he has claimed to be returning to his native West Coast for good every one of the past eight years as a graduate student, this time, he says, it is for real...