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...like a truck-driver than the publisher of the third largest men's magazine. (Last year that ordinal number meant over twenty million dollars in profit.) Hustler, in fact, celebrates the myth of the hard-drivin' fast-cussin' mean-fisted truckdrivers. They are the last American heroes, a lone breed of tough guys blazing down the pike at a speed that would turn a "pansyass" as white as his collar. Flynt talks slowly, firmly, and with a touch of impatience as if he were explaining a simple concept to a classroom of distracted children...
Tennstedt is 50. To the young Turks of the conducting life, that is pushing senescence. To the senior members of the breed, it is mere adolescence. To Tennstedt, it is an age at which everything falls into place. Born in Merseburg, Germany, Klaus took up the violin at the age of eight; by 22 he was concertmaster at the municipal theater in Halle. When a nerve disorder damaged a finger of the left hand several years later, he turned to conducting. At 32 he became music director of the Dresden Opera. There were, later on, tours of the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia...
...breed small chickens...
...biggest transition in New York roundball, however, is taking place at 119th Street and Broadway. Columbia's head basketball coach Tom Penders, the dean of the new breed of young, dynamic coaches, is building a team around a sophomore backcourt of Ricky Free and Alton Byrd that should make New York fans forget the heyday of Jim McMillian and Heyward Dotson, the Kramer-Hairston era at NYU, and the glory days of Fordham under brilliant coach Digger Phelps...
Richardson tended the twines in the maskless era of hockey, when goalie's mugs often resembled Goodrich radials. "I think that all goalies are a special breed who readily accept the challenges and hazards of the trade, and pray for a good set of defensemen," the 1953 Angier Trophy (Most Improved Player) winner commented...