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...Deejay Rege Cordic of Pittsburgh's pioneer station KDKA hit upon the "ancient" sport of brick throwing. The contest was moved to a wharf jutting into the Allegheny River after the first contestant threw his brick 67 ft. 2 in., "smack into a tentful of boy scouts." In all, some 75 athletes heaved their bricks into the water. Record toss: 80 ft., give or take a yard or two. What was it all about? None of the brick heavers were quite sure. But Disk Jockey Cordic has a new hobby magazine coming out in the fall, to be called...
...cluster of crew-cuts congealed at a brick wall and pitched pennies and told jokes and joined in spasmodic bursts of coarse laughter. A gaunt, triangular face asserted by a brown goatee told Portia her slip was showing. "It's snowing down south," he said wryly...
...enough, two hours later, another 2,000 Muscovites turned up before the ten-story U.S. embassy building. This time, however, the "rioters" contented themselves with waving placards and gentle shouts of "fascists" and "dogs." When one youth climbed aboard a passing truck and began to distribute its cargo of bricks among the demonstrators, a policeman intervened, insisted that every brick be returned. The Moscow papers, after all, had made no mention of any broken windows in New York...
Dangling Line. Sherman Adams set the new tone and pace of the White House and flavored it with his own brand of Yankee circumspection ("Sound as a dollar," as his 82-year-old father says. "Square as a brick"). Hard at work by 7:30 every morning, Adams takes due note of any of his staff who might come in a few minutes late ("Miss So-and-So," he snapped to a girl who was attending a presidential staff meeting, "you were late three mornings this week!"). Papers shoot into his office and out as fast as his bedeviled secretaries...
...night last week Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, elder of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church, addressed a dinner of the board of directors of Union Theological Seminary. "Out in Tennessee there is a plant which turns out bombs," he said. "Here is a plant which turns out ministers of the Gospel. The two seem remote and unrelated. Actually, the issue of our time-perhaps the issue of all our human time-is which of the two outputs will prevail." Then Secretary Dulles, whose son Avery was ordained a Jesuit priest two years ago, watched 179 seminarians get their...