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David Cheshire, as Bloody Five--the name stems from an incident involving a number of unfortunate natives--sported a Dali-esque mustache and spat out his lines from between clenched teeth. His ranting remained interesting, and his transformation into a bowler-hatted and betailed civilian--following orders from an enterprising campfollower--was perhaps the evening's comic highpoint...
...after all, has ever scored 100 points in a single night or averaged 39.5 points per game throughout a seven-year pro career? Wilt never stops there. "I am also the greatest boxer and the greatest miler and the greatest weight lifter and the greatest shotputter and the greatest bowler and the greatest cook and the greatest lover," he says. It took his fellow pros a while to realize that they could vote for one item on Wilt's list without buying all of them. Last week they elected him the N.B.A.'s most valuable player...
...about 8% in New York. Tax hikes have raised the price of a bottle of Scotch in Helsinki by 5% to a sobering $11 a fifth. In Helsinki, one British businessman complained to the Financial Times, eating out is "costing $84 a year in tips to cloakroom attendants for bowler hat and umbrella...
That covers an awful lot of drivers and an awful lot of races. Auto racing is as old as the second automobile. The first organized race was exactly 71 years ago, in 1894, and it was won by a bowler-hatted French nobleman named Count de Dion (later to be immortalized by having a racing rear axle named after him), who drove his steamer from Paris to Rouen, a distance of 79 miles, at an average speed of 12.6 m.p.h. Daredevil De Dion could not possibly have guessed the contagion he was spreading. Other races followed quickly-to Bordeaux, Marseille...
...often hard to tell whether he is spoofing the upper-crust Briton or simply being one. On his travels, like any Blimp setting off on safari, he packs his portmanteaus with sartorial accouterments for every conceivable occasion: white flannels for tennis, plus fours for golf, blazer for cricket, bowler, boater and deerstalker, tweeds, pinstripes, tails. Everything but the old elephant gun. He claims that he needs all those togs for professional use, but offstage he is seldom seen wearing the wrong suit or the same one twice. In real life he is as wildly gallant and exaggeratedly debonair...