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...answer to his own question. He did not quite find one, and his route took him past many of the familiar inscrutabilities of an island where the kimono is dismembered before laundering, where the men wear long underwear in summer and in winter peel off their overcoats to bow to a friend, where the women surrender trolley seats to boys and rank no higher than condiments at table, where dinner ends with soup, and the guests, invited for eight o'clock, arrive at six or ten. But the Rudofsky tour is conducted with such irresistible charm, wit, grace...
White Fang & Black Tooth. Soupy (years ago he legally changed his name from Milton Hines) has been that way for years, dressed in a loose, V-necked black sweater and floppy, polka-dotted bow tie, taking pies in the face. Born in North Carolina, he started as a disk jockey in West Virginia, first hit it big in 1953 on Detroit's WXYZ-TV, where his TV antics cadged kids into eating lunch. Then he transplanted to Hollywood and bloomed on. He was such a smash that the stars lined up to get smacked by one of Soup...
...these gains did not allay many private fears about the merger's future. One influential participant in the consultation thinks it possible that the Episcopalians and Methodists will bow out when a unity plan is formally proposed. Dr. Kyle Haselden, editor of The Christian Century, agrees that "a more likely venture is a union of the Disciples of Christ, United Church of Christ and the Presbyterians...
...finish line in 3 hrs. 19 min. 36 sec.-slicing 45 sec. off the race record. "I could have made it in three hours flat," shrugged Aronow, "the sea was so calm." So calm, in fact, that 007 still showed the dirty footprints that somebody had left on her bow back in Miami. Even at 66 knots, 007 had not churned up enough spray to wet the deck...
Saturday's first race was slowed by winds. Battling for a third place, Harvard's bow crossed the finish line of a closely pursuing boat. The judges nevertheless gave the Crimson a fourth, as the opposing boat's inflated spinnaker crossed the line ahead of Harvard's bow. In the second race, again under light winds, Harvard was third...