Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weren't fans, we were spectators plugged into a WHDH announcer whose voice sounded like breakfast, and worse yet, into distant, unimportant football games. Notre Dame vs. Purdue. How are the Boilermakers doing? Yanked back and forth in this echo chamber, one received a startling impression of America on a Saturday afternoon. A vast vacuum crossed only by baseballs, footballs, and flying hysterics...
...greatest pressure on the singles is the classic one-loneliness. In prosaic terms, this is coming back to an apartment where the breakfast dishes are still unwashed, the morning paper exactly where it was dropped, where nothing has moved. Mayo Mohs, a freelance journalist still single at 33, puts the unmarried's problem in a frame of reference that is more romantic and more telling: "The lack a single person feels most acutely is when he leaves his group to go off somewhere on a trip, one of those trips that his single status lets him enjoy...
...final eliminations get under way this week, Bus Mosbacher is tak ing no chances on his crew's losing its fighting edge. Breakfast is served at 7:30 in East Bourne Lodge, the mansion on Rhode Island Avenue, which the Intrepid syndicate has leased for the summer as a dormitory for Bus and his boys. A cheery "good morning" greets early risers who come to the table fresh from their two-mile run, and something else is in store for the slugabeds who forgot how hard it is to sneak up a gravel driveway at 3 a.m. without waking...
...Harrisburg, had an influx of hungry kids guzzling chocolate malted milk shakes to stave off imminent acute starvation and give us strength to hike a good mile to our homes where we could get into the ice-operated refrigerator and take on enough to enable us to survive until breakfast...
...Bill Naughton didn't make the happy ending Miss Mills running away with her husband's brother instead of Miss Mills making love to her husband. But Mr. Naughton, like so many others, insists that cerebral guy is great (you know he's cerebral because he reads at the breakfast table and plays symphonies in the bedroom), while the energetic boy with an appetite for life is second rate. (He rides a motorbike, and only frivolous people ride motorbikes.) Why this prediction for peaked pseudo-Hamlet types...